#flu

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#more #question #single #statements #than

When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#fluidity #love #faith

So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries. ↗

— Kim Dae Jung

#asian #asian countries #countries #democracy #economy

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

#before #every #fight #fighting #fits

The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me. ↗

— Rachel Roy

#influence #me #strong #were #women

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#another #became #consequence #during #efforts

[Author's Notes] As I write this, September 2002, much about the humpback song is still unknown. (Although scientists do know that it tends to be found in the New Age music section, as well as in tropical waters...) ↗

— Christopher Moore

#fluke #age

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. ↗

— Meredith Brooks

#artist #greatly #influenced #me #parents

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got. ↗

— Andrew Young

#got #influence #less #like #more

When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#feminist #joss-whedon #maternal-influence #pro-feminist #whedon