#path

I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#follow #herd #i #made #my own

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#actually #assume #audience #because #become

I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#expense #i #inner #path #pursuing

But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been. ↗

— William Kunstler

#blanket #came #chambers #darkness #federal

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#chose #chosen #committee #follow #free

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#decide #diverted #end #follow #path

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#being nice #either #good #got #gotta

"Empathy" is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. ↗

— Karl Rove

#backlash #branch #clay #code #constitution

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really "empathy" and "understanding." He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice. ↗

— Karl Rove

#court #empathy #justice #liberal #mr

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#capacity #empathize #enables #envision #experiences