#oura

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting. ↗

— Dabney Coleman

#acting #encourage #go #i #prospective

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. ↗

— Confucius

#compassion #courage #men #moral #moral qualities

When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#best #calm #come #confidence #courage

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind. ↗

— George Crabbe

#calls #courage #effort #experience #gains

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#courage

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#canada #encouraged #large #place #really

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption. ↗

— Evan Davis

#assume #assumption #behaviour #behavioural #deviate

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#blind faith #discouraging #expedient #faith #inquiry

I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#belong #eat #encourage #every #every time

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#american #candidates #character #confidence #courage