Evangelou Technical Systems Quotes & Sayings

The strongest and most mysterious weeds often have things to teach us. — F.T. McKinstry

Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating. — Peter Jackson

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme. — John Szarkowski

Does everything happen for a reason or do we reason things that happen? — William James Moore

liberty consists in doing what one desires — John Stuart Mill

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed. — Iyanla Vanzant

He walked into a room and everything stopped. Elvis was just so physically beautiful that even if he didn't have any talent ... just his face, just his presence. And he was funny, charming, and complicated, but he didn't wear it on his sleeve. You didn't see that he was complicated. You saw great needs. — Tuesday Weld

One explanation was offered by Alice Miller: "Many people continue to pass on the cruel deeds and attitudes to which they were subjected as children, so that they can continue to idealize their parents."16 Her premise is that we have a powerful, unconscious need to believe that everything our parents did to us was really for our own good and was done out of love. It's too threatening for many of us even to entertain the possibility that they weren't entirely well-meaning - or competent. So, in order to erase any doubts, we do the same things to our own children that our parents did to us. — Alfie Kohn

What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans. — Yahya Jammeh

You have to grow all the time," I said. "Not necessarily get bigger. But inside your head you have to grow, kid-boy. For us human-type people that's what's important. And that kind of growing never stops. At least it shouldn't. You can grow, kid-boy; or you can die. That's the choice you've got, and it goes on all of your life. — Samuel R. Delany

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth. — John Quincy Adams