#lent

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#any #born #conspiracy #cultivation #feels

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#cruel #dictator #hard #his #look

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#because #had #i #passing #regret

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#detail #devotion #finds #involves #minute

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#come #come and go #court #five #go

Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ↗

— Marcel Achard

#listening #men #silent #think #women

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#call #creatures #first #hunger #kind

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#been #conquest #emotional #experienced #feeling

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#been #being #conquest #constantly #emotional

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#such #talent #thing