#mental

He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do without him. There was somewhere else he had to go now, somewhere else he had to be. ↗

— S.E. Hinton

#dark #death #emotional #life #light

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#again #attitude #experience #failure #get

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #commercial #different #different kind #distract

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation. ↗

— John Sununu

#behind #benefit #broadband #business #concepts

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#cold #continuity #dark #energy #grace

And then finally, I'm the commander, so I am fundamentally responsible for the lives of the other people on board and the health and longevity of the space station. I need to bring six people back happy, healthy and feeling like they've had the best six months of their life. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

#back #best #board #bring #commander

But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#basic #beyond #extend #fundamentals #go

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing. ↗

— Howard Hughes

#built #ever #hercules #i #into

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art. ↗

— Clara Schumann

#got #instrumental #longer #treasures

Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life. ↗