Bill Crawford Quotes

Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

Bill Crawford

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• At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • American
  • Age
  • Theatre

• I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Time
  • Help
  • Age

• Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Words
  • Language
  • Existence

• Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Tired

• Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.'

  

  Chrysippus
  • Fate

• My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Life
  • Random

• A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired.

  

  Adam-Troy Castro

• The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed.

  

  Alan Huffman
  • Country

• I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Weed

• It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude.

  

  Lita Ford
  • Rock
  • Attitude

• Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Remember

• Focus on the positives and be grateful.

  

  Katrina Bowden
  • Focus

• We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• I definitely am a ritualistic person.

  

  Charlie Worsham

• I still live.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Live

• When all else fails...be a rockstar

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Fails
  • Rock Star

• Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.

  

  Aristotle
  • Chance
  • Excess
  • Defect

• Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Believe
  • Future

• Because the cigarette or spliff was an indispensable technology, a substitute for speech in social situations, a way to occupy the mouth and hands when alone, a deep breathing technique that rendered exhalation material, a way to measure and/or pass the time. More important than the easily satisfiable addiction, what the little cylinders provided me was a prefabricated motivation and transition, a way to approach or depart from a group of people or a topic, enter or exit a room, conjoin or punctuate a sentence. The hardest part of quitting would be the loss of narrative function; it would be like removing telephones or newspapers from the movies of Hollywood’s Golden Age; there would be no possible link between scenes, no way to circulate information or close distance, and when I imagined quitting smoking, I imagined “settling down,” not because I associated quitting with a more mature self-care, but because I couldn’t imagine moving through an array of social spaces without the cigarette as bridge or exit strategy.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Technology
  • Speech
  • Measure

• 'Dirty Dancing' is one of my favorite movies, and I was in love with Patrick Swayze for years, but I tried to stay out of his way and never to meet him because I knew if I did, he'd want to talk about yogurt or some weird dietary restriction or something.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Dancing

• Truth, like love and sleep, resents Approaches that are too intense.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Sleep

• Nothing trains and teaches so powerfully as love. Love attracts. it does not coerce. If the aim of parents is to teach their children to love God they must show their love for Him by loving each other and loving the children.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Children
  • Love

• Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Self-care