Ruth Beebe Hill famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I own my life. And only mine. And so I shall appreciate my person. And so I shall make proper use of myself.
-- Ruth Beebe Hill

#Self Esteem #Self Confidence #Appreciate
As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what they tell to anthropologists is always distorted.
-- Ruth Beebe Hill

#Paper #Pencils
Peace means loyalty to self. ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act.
-- Ruth Beebe Hill

#Loyalty #Mean #Self

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.
I donâ€™t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like
Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.
Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
I didn't realize at the moment exactly what I had done...I only realized the enormity of it when I walked into the press room and got a long standing ovation.It wasn't until I came out of my daze that I began to appreciate my accomplishment.

Ruth Beebe Hill famous quotes

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