The academic world is competitive. For ideas, grants, students, funding.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of signif...
Your dreams and your imagination are the keys to ART so capture all of yours in this notebook.....
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling i...
Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.
Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.