"Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead."

-- William Rainey Harper

#Years Quotes #Sight Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.”

Source : Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.139, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.”
“The second album is the hardest to write. Its nothing like the first album.”
“The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.161, University of Chicago Press
“Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality.”
“The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was "Deeds not Words," and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.”
“I am early in my story, but I believe I will stretch out into eternity, and in heaven I will reflect upon these early days, these days when it seemed God was down a dirt road, walking toward me. Years ago He was a swinging speck in the distance; now He is close enough I can hear His singing. Soon I will see the lines on His face.”
“I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.”

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