"One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine."

-- Walter Truett Anderson

#Growing Up Quotes #Self Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“But I have made no plans to run for any office right now.”
“The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.”
“I hate it if I'm at a party and see nothing but gay men - I don't want to be there. If your party doesn't have sexy, wonderful women at it then it's not a party.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.”
“We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the material of color is expressed in all of the manifold possibilities our subjectivity can create.”
“Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.”
“To feel grateful is one of the most important experiences we need as humans. When we feel it, there is an acceptance of everything in our life.”
“In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.”

Source : James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.301, BoD – Books on Demand

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