#nit

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time. ↗

— Kanye West

#crying #executives #front #frustrating #get

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important. ↗

— Mae West

#anymore #censorship #dignity #doing #films

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#accomplishment #any #background #child #children

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. ↗

— Hermann Weyl

#beautiful #choose #chose #had #i

I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels. ↗

— Abraham Whipple

#artillery #either #farthing #i #money

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#intelligence #mistakes #self-recognition #forgiveness

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker. ↗

— Allen West

#level #military #pretty #spent #states

We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good. ↗

— Cornel West

#community #deeper #good #had #important

In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of -- moments when we human beings can say "I love you," "I'm proud of you," "I forgive you," "I'm grateful for you." That's what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#inspirational #forgiveness

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself. ↗

— Rebecca West

#humanity #itself #more #never #than