Benjamin Smith Quotes
As human beings, we have developed a specific number of emotional reactions that are triggered by conditions or situations.Benjamin Smith
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I'm never comfortable being in front of the camera, but I've learned how to deal with it.
Alex Wolff -
We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.
Flannery O'Connor -
I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.
Vivienne Westwood -
I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.
Vivienne Westwood -
If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.
Francis Bacon -
In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.
Epictetus
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I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.
will.i.am -
I don't think there's any way we can save the polar bears.
Will Steger -
If we never had any storms, we couldn't appreciate the sunshine.
Dale Evans -
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
Rudyard Kipling -
Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
Steve Jobs
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IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?
Tony Hillerman -
Jesus matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity." (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning)
Brennan Manning -
If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.
Nicolas Berggruen -
As human beings, we have developed a specific number of emotional reactions that are triggered by conditions or situations.
Benjamin Smith