Candeiras Quotes & Sayings

In hard times, or even presuccess times, society and at least one cartoonist want you to take care of yourself first. If you pursue your selfish objectives, and you do it well, someday your focus will turn outward. — Scott Adams

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next. — Bobby McFerrin

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality. — Margaret Spellings

It doesn't take rocket science to be patriotic — Thabiso Monkoe

It is hard to be with another's pain if we cannot be with our own. Since I was a child I have always felt a deep sense of responsibility to ease others' pain. But I have discovered that often, beneath this genuine and admirable desire, lies an inability to be with my own sorrow. Several years ago, watching a close friend suffer when a brain aneurysm took away her life as she knew it, I wrote in my journal, I won't ask much. But if you would just let me save your life, perhaps it will not hurt so much to know I cannot save my own. — Oriah Dreamer

It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work. — May Sarton

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world. — Gina Prince-Bythewood