Mikiah Kreps Quotes

#1. On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it

Benjamin Franklin

#2. During the post-breakdown period, she read books the way an addict swallowed pills. She devoured stories one after the other, trying not to let reality intrude too deeply.

Susan Wiggs

#3. Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

Jonathan Carroll

#4. Dreams are all very well but are not known to pay the mortgage.

Auliq Ice

#5. Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

Karen Armstrong

#6. Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. ... Hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful.

Elon Musk

#7. I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

Barack Obama

#8. She was a genius, my mother.

Sally Kirkland

#9. Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?

Frederick Sommer

#10. By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.

Paul A. Baran

#11. It's so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

John Lasseter

#12. Defiance of the way things are is the only way to embrace what's coming.

Shelly Crane

#13. Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.

Kevin Whately

#14. It's not up to Google, it's not up to Apple to turn over our personal communications in order to save the country. It's up to the CIA and it's up to the FBI to recruit foreign - I mean to recruit human sources, rather, to penetrate these groups.

John Kiriakou

#15. Keep your heart pure. A pure heart is necessary to see God in each other. If you see God in each other, there is love for each other, then there is peace.

Mother Teresa