Ongles Vernis Quotes

#1. The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks.

William James

#2. Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!

Lou Engle

#3. Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

Ron Fournier

#4. Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.

James Surowiecki

#5. Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.

Travis Bradberry

#6. I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.

Jonathan Miller

#7. One must come to the understanding in the end that one was always insufficiently practiced, and yet one must sometimes act anyway. Practice itself was an act.

Elizabeth Bear

#8. Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

Joe Garagiola

#9. Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement. In South Africa we have a common phrase - it's like a chant in the street and at rallies: "Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo." Which means, "You strike a woman, you strike a rock."

Trevor Noah

#10. Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#11. Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side." Though

Alan Dean Foster

#12. The universe likes speed, focus and dedication. Whatever we put our attention on, drives miracles towards us without much efforts.

Robin Sacredfire