Jo Bell Quotes
The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
When you have a child, you are just immediately changed forever. You put yourself second. Your child comes first, and everything that you do is with them in mind.
I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.
One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.
The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.
Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.
Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.
Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it's going to be a whole different experience.
It wasn't like a "I know I wanted to do this," I was sort of just - I was five and my dad kinda said hey, you wanna be an actor and I said sure.
I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.
The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.
The fans are especially amazing in Mexico. You look out your window, and there are fans that stay out there all night long.
Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.
We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.
It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.
Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.
There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
We all may have prejudices, but we're not all part of a system that reinforces, reinvents and reaffirms itself every day of our lives, systemically.
Customers long to interact with - even relate to - employees who act like there is still a light on inside.
Kids need to be structured in some way, but you don't want to force something down their throats that they have no interest in.
I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.
The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.
If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.
I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that
Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
Customers who are merely satisfied remain your customers only as long as everything goes their way.
...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.