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inspirational-life taken men
Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am. C. S. Lewis
inspirational-love vulnerable
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
inspirational motivational education
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Carl Rogers
inspirational
Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman. Malala Yousafzai
inspiration rich-and-poor rich-money
Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge. Robert Kiyosaki
inspirational winning games
Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.
inspirational mistake fall
In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.
inspirational life motivational
A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn't know before.
inspiration want-something people
People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.
oracles becoming sap
SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos. Bill Vaughan
oracles librarian
I'm a librarian, not an oracle. Libba Bray
oracles speak
Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all. Luis Barragan
oracles sound these-days
Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations. John Twelve Hawks
oracles folly built
The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us. Paul Valery
poet proud
We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago. Richard Daley
poetry
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. Octavio Paz
poetry
Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
poetry
Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice. Phoebe Snow
poet teacher time
As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to. Philip Schultz
poet poets useful
Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or produceful Ogden Nash
poetry time
Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence. Edward Hirsch
poetry ted writes
Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people. Dave Evans
poetry served
Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.