"We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions."

-- Jerome Bruner

#Self Quotes #Needs Quotes #Agents Quotes

“Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.”
“If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.”

Source : "The Power of Six". Book by Pittacus Lore, 2011.
“Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.”
“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”

Source : Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
“Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.”
“Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of western culture for almost twenty centuries... It is from his birth that most of the human race dates its calendars, it is by his name that millions curse and in his name that millions pray.”

Source : Jaroslav Pelikan (1996). “Jesus through the centuries: Mary through the centuries”
“Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.”
“I am far from perfect, but I have something else. I heard that people in the industry are longing for more personality and diversity. Perhaps I am more a 'character' than a model.”

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