Juantorena Pickering Quotes & Sayings

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own. — Sonny Rollins

The past defines us as much as the present. By never knowing my past, I was never sure of who I was. Because mine was missing, I never felt whole. — Arlene J. Chai

The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere. — Cory Booker

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality ... was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil ... This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands ... — Joseph Campbell

Douady and Hubbard used a brilliant chain of new mathematics to prove that every floating molecule does indeed hang on a filigree that binds it to all the rest, a delicate web springing from tiny outcroppings on the main set, a "devil's polymer," in Mandelbrot's phrase. The mathematicians proved that any segment-no matter where, and no matter how small-would, when blown up by the computer microscope, reveal new molecules, each resembling the main set and yet not quite the same. Every new molecule would be surrounded by its own spirals and flame-like projections, and those, inevitably, would reveal molecules tinier still, always similar, never identical, fulfilling some mandate of infinite variety, a miracle of miniaturization in which every new detail was sure to be a universe of its own, diverse and entire. — James Gleick

I am still learning, for the Christian life is one of constant growth. — Billy Graham

I want children who feel embarrassed because they speak Spanish to realize that there are places where the beautiful Spanish they speak is an asset. — Pat Mora

As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief. — James Branch Cabell

Decision, Decision, Decision!
Choices, Choices, Choice.!
Decision and choices define life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If your goal is transformation, then it's more important to teach them how to think than what to think. — Ken Hensley

Pleasure and pain.
That was my Melody.
She was my poison
so toxic, when sampled,
yet,
so sweet ... — Kenya Wright

I keep a band of music in my ante-room," he said once to her. "It has orders to play without stopping; it renders me two excellent services. It keeps the sounds of the world from reaching the private apartments, and it makes the world think that dancing's going on within. — Henry James