#stop

I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment. ↗

— Lee Child

#good #gourmet #guy #heading #i

I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#city #constant #constant state #great #i

If you can deny your talents, if you can conceal them from others or, even better, persuade yourself that they weren’t even given to you, you’re off the hook. And being off the hook is a key element of the industrialized school’s promise. It lets parents off the hook, certainly, since the institution takes over the teaching. It lets teachers off the hook, since the curriculum is preordained and the results are tested. And it lets students off the hook, because the road is clearly marked and the map is handed to everyone. If you stay on the path, do your college applications through the guidance office and your job hunting at the placement office, the future is not your fault. That’s the refrain we hear often from frustrated job seekers, frustrated workers with stuck careers, and frustrated students in too much debt. 'I did what they told me to do and now I’m stuck and it’s not my fault.' What they’ve exchanged for that deniability is their dreams, their chance for greatness. To go off the path is to claim responsibility for what happens next. ↗

— Seth Godin

#dreams

I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#dream #i #staying #stopping #true

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. ↗

— John Ciardi

#better #better idea #happens #idea #looking

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#created #did #going #instead #job

One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#activities #could #did #early #engaging

The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act.aI've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister. ↗

— Helen Clark

#ai #been #buck #called #charge

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out. ↗

— Beyonce Knowles

#chill #chill out #even #go #how

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#how #human #inhuman #people #stop