quotes about Alphas

“Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.”

“Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.”

“If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, is that why young women, even unintentionally, turn to getting something else in return for sex? Whether it be popularity, career success, professional attention.”

Source : "My discoveries weren’t any more extensive or alarming than most people’s. I just chose to look". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

“We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.”

Source : YouTube Channel "R2Agent"/"Randy Pausch addressing the CMU 2008 graduating class", www.youtube.com. May 19, 2008.

“Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.”

“You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.”

“What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father.”

“Dennis Lewis has a deep understanding of the central importance of breathing, in both its physical and spiritual dimensions”

“Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.”

“The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.”

Source : Horace Walpole, John Wright, George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron) (1840). “The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts”, p.267