"As our understanding of obedience deepens, we recognize the essential role of agency."

-- Robert D. Hales

#Agency Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Roles Quotes

“We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.”
“Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. Iâ€™ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. Iâ€™ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Donâ€™t Mind.”
“What attracted me was less art itself than the artistâ€™s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action. I had been attracted to painting and drawing for a long time, but it was not an irresistible passion; what I wanted, at all costs, was to escape the monotony of life.”
“Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.”
“You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.”
“I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.”
“If you change our immigration system to a skills-based system that respects and treats people for who they are as individuals as opposed to residents of a certain country or relatives of certain people in the United States, it's a system that is more in keeping with American values.”
“So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas it holds must each make that sudden, delightful impact upon their minds, must cause that intellectual stir, which mark the inception of an idea.”

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