Bernadette Roberts Quotes

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.

Bernadette Roberts

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• Sidewalk

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• The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Play

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Learning
  • Mistakes
  • Making

• I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

  

  Kaki King
  • Guitar
  • Listen
  • Too Much

• Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Fun
  • Fault
  • Bullying

• Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • More
  • Optimistic

• When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Bounce

• Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Professional
  • Boxing
  • Back

• I’m not a particularly ideological person. There’s things, some values I feel passionately about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Person
  • Values
  • Ideological

• God bless pop music and God bless MTV.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • God

• Like when Jay Leno made jokes about Koreans eating dog, but the hidden messages, our invisibility, is more harmful to us than any of those fools on 'board'.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Dog

• I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • Life
  • Work
  • Style

• My dream was always to win a grand slam, and my second dream was to be No. 1.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Dream

• A wonderful acting teacher I love, Josh Pais, has a system I love for being in the moment in acting, but also in life. And one of the things he reminds me of is to take a moment and just be here now.

  

  Alysia Reiner
  • Life
  • Teacher

• Guitar music or rock n' roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it'll never go away completely. It can't die because it's so fundamentally attractive.

  

  Alex Turner
  • Music
  • Die
  • Rock

• My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Women
  • Job

• When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Roles

• There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • People
  • Live
  • Interesting

• Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

  

  Matthew Tobin Anderson
  • Reading
  • Amazing

• Don’t try to plan everything out to the very last detail. I’m a big believer in just getting it out there: create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.

  

  Neil Patel
  • Try
  • Create
  • Product

• Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.

  

  Bernadette Roberts
  • Running
  • Spiritual Life
  • Sidewalk