Perseveranza Dizionario Quotes & Sayings

Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And when these brain systems are functioning improperly or become damaged, normal levels of self-control and willpower are impossible. — Russell Barkley

I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn. — Patrick Rothfuss

Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But sometimes the dance has gone well and my subject and I have moved together as if with shared purpose. — Keith Carter

It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; the tear may be forgotten ... but the hurt stays in the heart. — Ella Higginson

It didn't work. It didn't work because I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people. — A.S. King

Guns are completely inappropriate for the kind of sheep-like people the anointed envision or the orderly, prepackaged world in which they are to live. When you are in mortal danger, you are supposed to dial 911, so that the police can arrive on the scene some time later, identify your body, and file reports in triplicate. — Thomas Sowell

Be faithful in your calling and you will fulfill your ministry to the end — Sunday Adelaja

Soul ties. The thing that can make you hear an old-school slow jam and think of somebody you haven't seen in years. Soul ties. The thing that makes old people who've been together for years finish each other's sentences. Don't you wish mama had told you when you were young that, when you lie with someone, you lie not just with her body but also with her soul? And whatever condition the other person's soul is in, you are guaranteed to take a piece with you - whether you want to or not. Instead of being amazed at her booty, you should have focused on her mind. — Kirk Franklin

For a century or more, the "civilized" world regarded as a manifestation of its wealth metal dug from deep in the ground, refined at great labor, and transported great distances to be buried again in elaborate vaults deep under the ground, — Felix Martin

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting. — Janet Flanner

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that. — Cliff Martinez

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances. — Anthony Geary

Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything. — Vincent Van Gogh

In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it. — Shakira