#nit

I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to. ↗

— Natalie Massenet

#am #close #definition #i #i am

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#been #case #could #create #every

I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in. ↗

— Bob Matsui

#consequences #dialogue #examine #fruitful #i

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#different #enter #entirely #environment #living

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something. ↗

— Paul Mazursky

#because #convinced #definite #direct #else

The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes- a time for men and women to be heroic in their faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#church #dallas-willard #inspirational #religion #age

We'd like to build a highway for healing and unity. ↗

— Bill McCartney

#healing #highway #like #unity

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humanity #inspirational #age

I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#back #called #concerts #corps #cutting

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame. ↗

— Joel McHale

#definitely #fame #famous #goal #having