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A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!

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• More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Me
  • Nothing

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Something
  • Possesses

• Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Political

• Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Nature
  • Health
  • Matter

• Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

  

  John Milton
  • Hearts
  • Willing
  • Conquer

• I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Situation
  • Foolishness
  • Awkwardness

• Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is the sum total of all your past moves...but first you have to make some kind of move.

  

  Mort Walker

• Wealth without goodness is a worthless increase, and goodness needs substance.

  

  Callimachus
  • Wealth
  • Goodness
  • Substance

• None of us start out strong ... And none of us have the exact same strengths.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Strong
  • Start
  • Strengths

• I've been wearing kimono for several years, and armor.

  

  Hiroyuki Sanada
  • Years
  • Armor
  • Kimonos

• The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

  

  Jon Krakauer
  • Spirit
  • Experiences
  • Core

• Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy brain I used to believe was useless — that is the best brain for creative writing. Words come pouring out easily while my head still feels as if it is full of ground fog, wrapped in flannel and gauze, and surrounded by a hive of humming, velvety sleep bees.

  

  Merrill Markoe
  • Morning
  • Creative
  • Pouring

• I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Person
  • Solution
  • Curious

• Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Youth

• The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we end up conforming, following everyone else. We want to be stronger so we lead that life inside, thinking of ourselves as these great brave souls. I literally thought when I was 15 that I was a musical genius and I could change the world, but in fact you're not and you can't and you don't, and that realisation is almost heartbreaking.

  

  Katie Melua
  • Secret
  • Stronger
  • Ourselves

• A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!

  

  Deeba
  • Ideals
  • Towards
  • Tenacious