"Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort."

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

#Air Quotes #Individuality Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.”
“I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.”

Source : "Ledisi: A Singer's Second Life". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 9, 2011.
“When you start a new company, you have to do it all. Yes, all of it.”
“Positive and powerful: Sometimes people won't like me, and it's okay. Positive and powerful: I like me, and that's all that matters. Positive and powerful: It's more important what I think of me than what someone else thinks of me.”

Source : Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.59, John Wiley & Sons
“We are made whole by books, as by great space and the stars.”
“All quiet along the Potomac.”

Source : Attributed in the American Civil War.
“My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.”
“If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.”

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