Renees Quotes & Sayings

I've got to remember to ask her if she can tie a knot in a cherry with it, too. Not that it matters. I have no use for knotted cherries. But — Lauren Blakely

I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows. — Elena Ferrante

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself. — John James Audubon

Note to self...must back up my files daily... — Heather Mar-Gerrison

Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out. — Minor White

Mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That's what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students. Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. Put a bunch of Renees in a classroom, and give them the space and time to explore mathematics for themselves, — Malcolm Gladwell

To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work. — Joshua Oppenheimer