#mina

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

#believe #courage #determination #having #means

There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, and an illuminated landing strip. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#confusion #friend #illuminate #quotes #sky

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake? ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#dreams

When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational #secret-of-life #dreams

Someday I want to get a tattoo. That's the first thing I'm going to do after I realize my biggest ambition in life: going to prison. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #tattoos #funny

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#automatic #been #debate #democratic #democratic society

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#criminals #desires #disastrous #driven #end

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#criminal #fact #interesting #into #lied

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#almost #blunt #causes #combined #discriminating

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan. ↗

— Donnie Yen

#director #festival #film #film festival #got