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• Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Change
  • Challenges
  • Victory

• Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Giving
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Think
  • Powerful
  • Snow

• Generally, I'm not writing about genomes or anything like that. But people underestimate the creativity you use in science and the rigor you need in music. They basically have the same path.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• A great myth is relevant as long as the predicament of humanity lasts; as long as humanity lasts. It will always work, on those who can receive it, the same catharsis.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.

  

  David Harewood
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Naughty

• Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If I do everything that the people in those cases did, then my organization will grow and be successful, too.'

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Organization

• I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

  

  James D. Watson
  • People
  • Science

• I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it.

  

  James Bobin
  • People
  • Simple

• I find it so weird when the media calls me 'small screen super star.' I don't think I'm one!

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Small
  • Star
  • Weird

• I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Life
  • Real

• Look, nobody is born with a sociology degree, and no one can understand all perspectives. Nobody's going to get it all from the very start. But the Internet at least allows everyone to hear these perspectives at a much faster rate than if we had to do it without it.

  

  Tyler Oakley

• When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Accept
  • Uniform
  • Inhibitions

• Every black man in Chicago walks through the world differently, and I think what young black boys do is observe, and that's what gives them their road map.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • World
  • Black
  • Road

• I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

  

  Mary Leakey
  • Live
  • Stupid

• For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

  

  Brian Greene
  • People
  • Nature
  • Universe

• You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Women
  • Love
  • Respect

• Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Selling
  • Pens

• What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • American
  • Dream

• And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Focus
  • Opinion
  • Waiting

• We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Space
  • Choices
  • Exercise

• When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you've put on.

  

  Coco Chanel
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