Lillian Beckwith Quotes & Sayings

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake. — Patti Smith

As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience. — Jeanette Winterson

You win a fight, you learn from it. You lose a fight, you learn from it. — Uriah Hall

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible ... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. — Susan Sontag

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below. — Angus Wilson

You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think you love him more than you can bear. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

A miracle is never perfect when it happens, there are always little disappointments. But once it's gone for good and nothing can change it, memory could make it perfect and then it would never change. If I can just call it to life now, won't it always stay the same? Won't it stay with me as long as I live? — Erich Maria Remarque

But there is a critical point about differences between individuals that exerts arguably more influence on worker productivity than any other. The factor is locus of control, a fancy name for how people view their autonomy and agency in the world. People with an internal locus of control believe that they are responsible for (or at least can influence) their own fates and life outcomes. They may or may not feel they are leaders, but they feel that they are essentially in charge of their lives. Those with an external locus of control see themselves as relatively powerless pawns in some game played by others; they believe that other people, environmental forces, the weather, malevolent gods, the alignment of celestial bodies
basically any and all external events
exert the most influence on their lives. — Daniel J. Levitin

societies define themselves by how they define and manage dangers. — Baruch Fischhoff

It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear. — Lois Lowry