"Never accept other people's limited perceptions of you. Define yourself. You can do anything."

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Source : Twitter post from Dec 12, 2015

Jeanette Jenkins

#People Quotes #Perception Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet... nattering nabobs of negativism ...”
“In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.'”
“The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.”

Source : Rex Brandt (1984). “Seeing with a painter's eye”
“If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.”
“I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.”

Source : John Gardiner Calkins BRAINARD (1842). “The Poems of John G. C. Brainard. A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life. [With a Portrait.]”, p.19
“I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.”
“I don't get why arabs are so pissed off at us. I mean they have enough oil for all of them to drive a hummer at what, maybe 1.50 a gallon?”
“Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel that complex flow that is organism, evolution, and environment united. The time has come for biology to enter the nonlinear world.”

Source : "A New Biology for a New Century" by Carl Woese, mmbr.asm.org. June 1, 2004.

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