"Be patient and gentle with yourself as you continue to learn new ways of eating and living. There is no need for hard-and-fast rules or white-knuckle determination. Keep leaning forward into the positive changes you are making, and then apply that same gentleness to your family and community."

-- Kathy Freston

#Determination Quotes #Character Quotes #White Quotes

“Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything.”

Source : Michael Bierut (2012). “Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design”, p.13, Chronicle Books
“We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.”

Source : Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois
“President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.”
“Entertainers have no brain...I get frustrated when I hear things like that from people. We have different goals. We have our own ways. I try to do the best I can, but still...”
“When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen.”
“ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.”
“When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.”
“If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, youâ€™re not an entrepreneur.”

Source : "The Life’s Work of a Thought Leader" by Art Kleiner, www.strategy-business.com. August 9, 2010.

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