It is really important for women to look up and see other women being successful. When I was in that position, all I wanted to do was blend in and be one of the guys.
The students whipped their heads back to look at her; a blaspheming teacher was as exciting as a fight.
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or sh...
Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.
We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.
I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.
