#make up

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#certitude #entail #evidence #faith #free

Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that. ↗

— George Michael

#always #being #exception #i #loved

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#lack #length #make #make up #orators

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

#completely #costs #decide #first #first thing

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#call #express #fiction #how #i

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#arrive #early #i #i always #late

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds! ↗

— Yoko Ono

#concerts #had #make #make up #minds

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#copy #feel #hear #hot #i

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#defeats #going #great #great man #his

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. ↗

— John Ruskin

#compensate #cultivation #every #kind #make