"I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?"

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Source : Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

Adriana Trigiani

#Boys Quotes #Excellence Quotes #Settling Quotes

“I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.”
“Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.”
“I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.”
“My whole life has been one big broken promise.”
“I'm what they call a 'non-black person of color': NBPOC. It's easy and seductive and common to mobilize around these identity issues, but often that's done at the expense of considering structural anti-blackness. That puts everything in a slightly different light for me, especially because of where I am and why - where I am in the world of the arts, where I live, in Harlem - and the music that I've been able to make, whom I've been able to make it with, who has nurtured me. It's not just about solidarity. It's actually about debt.”
“I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.”
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
“Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.”

Source : "Only Passion Can Transform Stress Into Success" by John Hagel, bigthink.com.

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