quotes about Putting Yourself Out There

“I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion.”

Source : "Paging Your Inner-Tween: We're Chatting With Ben Savage (AKA Cory Matthews!)". Interview with Rosemary Brennan, www.glamour.com. October 18, 2011.

“I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.”

“I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.”

“Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero, and it won't be solved by one government acting alone. The climate problem will not be solved without mass participation by the general public in countries around the globe.”

“You don’t have to be special, you just have to be kind.”

“President Obama has announced a task force to review the tax codes. He's concerned there are too many loopholes and too many people manipulating the system to avoid paying taxes. And that's just in his administration.”

“Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one of the first autonomous things we do, picking the books we want to read.”

“To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.”

Source : William Tyndale, John Frith (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith”, p.317

“As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.”

“My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.”