Bancal Natural Quotes & Sayings

Bands like R.E.M. and even The Replacements, during that initial wave of college rock, would sell 40, 50, 100,000 copies of a record, and that would be seen as extremely successful - and definitely enough to keep doing more. — Adam Schlesinger

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. — Bill Moyers

Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self-reflection and discovery. — Emily Auerbach

I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy. — David Bowie

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. — Jose Bergamin

Looking back, the first symptom was a gradual decrease in his ability to concentrate at work. Naturally curious and active, he noticed an uncharacteristic tendency to procrastinate. — John Grisham

Then he, Luke, Mace, Lee, Hank and Eddie (not to mention Tex and Duke) took off, each one wearing a scary-angry look on their face. In about ten minutes there was no more noise and they all came back with a shitload of confiscated fireworks. — Kristen Ashley

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile. — Taylor Caldwell

Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity. — Nicole Kidman

I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that. — Amanda Bynes

Sophie could remember situations when her mother or the teachers at school had tried to teach her something that she hadn't been receptive to. And whenever she had really learned something, it was when she had somehow contributed to it herself. — Jostein Gaarder

Release all the anxiety that keeps you from moving ahead. Keep breathing it out and letting it go. — Judith Orloff

Use-induced cortical reorganization, says Taub, "involves alterations different from mere learning and memory. Rather than producing just increased synaptic strength at certain junctions, which is believed to underlie learning, some unknown mechanism is instead producing wholesale topographic reorganization." And more: we are seeing evidence of the brain's ability to remake itself throughout adult life, not only in response to outside stimuli but even in response to directed mental effort. We are seeing, in short, the brain's potential to correct its own flaws and enhance its own capacities. — Jeffrey M. Schwartz

If we want to live a Wholehearted life, we have to become intentional about cultivating sleep and play, and about letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth. — Brene Brown