#pre

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital. ↗

— George Steiner

#being #brain #expression #heart #human

It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the country. I don't believe this is a rash decision. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#believe #born #country #decision #encouragement

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation. ↗

— George P. Baker

#come #dramatists #generation #into #judging

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good. ↗

— David Baldacci

#bad #bad people #flip #good #good people

I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#i #patti #patti smith #pretty #she

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#absolute truth #eternal #makes #pretension #science

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#becoming #difficult #leader #precisely #simple

The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush. ↗

— John Spratt

#bush #concerned #country #course #federal

So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#construction #doing #doing good #give #good

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not. ↗

— Tom Bosley

#get #just #live #many #older