Looking Back At Hardships Quotes & Sayings

This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but I knew how smart some of my friends were; they were just smart in different ways. — Kamasi Washington

Susan always claimed that when I ate a sub I looked like I'd fought with it. — Robert B. Parker

Its the not the Destination, It's the journey. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don't mess with you much. What that means is you've got nine hours of free time every day to devote to generating psychological stress toward other animals in your troop. So the baboon is a wonderful model for living well enough and long enough to pay the price for all the social-stressor nonsense that they create for each other. They're just like us: They're not getting done in by predators and famines, they're getting done in by each other. — Robert M. Sapolsky

Affective life thus shows us that we are not only individuals, that our being is not reducible to our individuated being. — Muriel Combes

To operate within the matrix of
power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination. — Judith Butler

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. — Mickey Mantle

Gay rights and human rights are ... one and the same. — Hillary Clinton