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inspiring beautiful country
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. Steve Jobs
inspiring
A change is as good as a rest. Stephen King
inspiring race people
We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial. Ted Turner
inspiring children parent
The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE. Philip Roth
inspiring travel thinking
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. Nicolas Chamfort
inspiring powerful people
Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful? Mario Cuomo
inspiring two generations
Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.
inspiring dream impossible
I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner. Michael Caine
inspiring encouragement bad-day
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
patience dog mad
Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad. William Shakespeare
powerful writing decision
There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out. Tate Taylor
powerful hero catalyst-for-change
After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.
powerful ajax government
The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship. Stephen Kinzer
powerful drug world
Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.
powerful ideas firsts
It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
powerful men broken
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will. Stephen Ambrose
powerful two firsts
Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life. Stefan Kanfer
powerful black-and-white strange
There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.
powerful men people
The word "Witch" carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word "Witch" is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful; as men, to know the feminine within as divine. Starhawk