Showing posts with label difference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label difference. Show all posts

Monday, 17 April 2023

Quotes: Clayton Cubitt

"Find the thing in you that is different, that's as sharp as a diamond and jagged as a razor. Hone that, because that's the thing with which you'll cut the world." 

–– Clayton Cubitt (b. 1972), American photographer, filmmaker, and writer

Source: The Great Discontent on Instagram 

via: Sketchbook 30, 2017, p. 47.

Tuesday, 7 March 2023

Women's quotes: Michelle Obama

"Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives."

–– Michelle Obama, (b. 1964), American attorney, author, former First Lady of the United States (2009-2017), and first African-American to serve in this role 

Tuesday, 10 January 2023

Quotes: Jane Goodall

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

–– Jane Goodall (b. 1934), English primatologist and anthropologist 

via: Sketchbook 26, 2022, p. 147.

Thursday, 16 June 2022

Quotes: A Franciscan blessing

"May God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done."
 
–– A Franciscan blessing 

via Sketchbook 14, 2011, p. 96

Thursday, 24 March 2022

Women's quotes: Audre Lorde

"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."

–– Audre Lorde (1934-1992), American writer, feminist, civil rights activist and a self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet." 

Wednesday, 8 December 2021

Quotes 318: André Gide

"What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life."

–– André Gide (1869-1951), French writer 

via Sketchbook 8, 2009, p. 35

Tuesday, 27 April 2021

Quotes 92: Jane Goodall

"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference." 

–– Jane Goodall (b. 1934), English primatologist and anthropologist

via Book of Commonplace 2004-2005, p. 157