#prima

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#consciousness #heroic #our #ourselves #own

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#george #george w #governor #had #i

The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#arms #cake #far #gordon #legs

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#attacked #because #century #critics #documents

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

#armament #defend #defense #faith #machines

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years. ↗

— Elaine Paige

#i #musicals #over #primarily #singing

Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#men #primarily #serve #them #train

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored. ↗

— Louis CK

#bored #boredom #inspirational #reprimand #young

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be? ↗

— Frans de Waal

#humanity #intelligence #primates #intelligence

I’d been traveling in Asia long enough to know that monkeys there are nothing like their trombone-playing, tambourine-banging cousins I’d seen on TV as a kid. Free-living Asian primates possess a characteristic I found shocking and confusing the first time I saw it: self-respect. If you make the mistake of holding the gaze of a street monkey in India, Nepal, or Malaysia, you’ll find you’re facing a belligerently intelligent creature whose expression says, with a Robert DeNiro–like scowl, “What the hell are you looking at? You wanna piece of me?” Forget about putting one of these guys in a little red vest. ↗

— Christopher Ryan

#monkeys #primates #intelligence