Kowtowing Define Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. — Diane Ackerman

Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with a baseball bat? Is it moving at all, or is something on the blind side holding it in place? A single frame didn't mean a thing. Patterns were based on data. With enough datapoints, you could predict just about anything. — Marcus Sakey

Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is. — Jean Chatzky

And now Rosalind enters. Rosalind is
utterly Rosalind. She is one of those girls who need never make the slightest effort to have men fall in love with them. Two types of men seldom do: dull men are usually afraid of her cleverness and intellectual men are usually afraid of her beauty. All others are hers by natural prerogative. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The most disgusting in the world is being unaware of who we are — Sunday Adelaja

The camp children descended upon me in a raucous, violent flurry of little bodies. I felt like tiny buffalo were stampeding over me. — Colleen Houck

Life is simpler when we feel controlled. When we tell ourselves that we are controlled, we can shift the responsibility of freeing ourselves onto that which controls us. When we do that, we don't have to bear the responsibility of our unhappiness or shoulder the burden of self-ownership. We don't have to do anything. And nothing will ever change. — Ken Ilgunas

I is sometimes hearing faraway music coming from the stars in the sky.' A — Roald Dahl

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us. I often think that all I want to do now is to avoid suicide, accidental or otherwise. Other than that, I think living on the edge is what drives my work and me beyond a certain point. The artist lives with anxiety. When you finally reach a plateau of achievement, there comes a new anxiety - the hunger to push on still further. That angst is what makes you go forward. — Beverly Pepper

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese. — Charles De Gaulle

It's about isolation and loneliness, but it's also about friendship. Being exactly what the other person needs. — Stephanie Perkins

If, like Charles Silberman, we think school "should prepare people not just to earn a living but to live a life - a creative, humane, and sensitive life,"22 then children's attitudes toward learning are at least as important as how well they perform at any given task. — Alfie Kohn

A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence. — Rachel Abbott