"Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do."

-- George Eliot

#Character Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Body Quotes

“Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art.”
“We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.”
“The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be retrained to be scientists, engineers, technicians, executives, consultants, teachers, lawyers and the like, and then somehow find the appropriate number of job openings in the very narrow high-tech sector, seems at best a pipe dream, and at worst a delusion.”
“I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don't work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.' I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?”

Source : "Gisele: Supermodel Muse" by Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 11, 2009.
“Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.”
“The reason we don't get what we want isn't because we don't have the ability or time. We aren't willing to do the things we need to do when we don't feel like doing them. There's an impact of that entitlement on their business. The attitude is you learn to fall in love with the daily grind.”
“My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.”
“I'm 13 to 17, 18 years old; I thought that's what the world was like. It never occurred to me that this was a very unusual period in music history. So I went on assuming that one day I'm going to have my band like my heroes had their own band. So people ask me this question all the time - they go, "Bass is basically a background instrument." The other thing is that in urban music, Black music, the bass has a much higher profile.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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