#stance

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. ↗

— Mark Twain

#absence #fear #mastery #resistance

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#advantage #always #another #circumstances #gives

In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#key #resistance #sales

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#closer #distance #greater #look #looks

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance. ↗

— Max Bill

#beauty #conjectures #creating #embody #far

I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#consider #education #getting #i #i write

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#become #circumstances #extraordinary #extraordinary people #more

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#commit #despot #developed #developed world #leaders

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#circumstances #content #could #difficult #difficult circumstances

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. ↗

— Mark Twain

#circumstances #denied #even #prayer #profanity