Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life. _ Wade Boggs

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

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When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order _ Meister Eckhart

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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. - Martha Graham

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The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation.- Donald Trump

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When you have great performers and have set your movie in the right direction, it's a beautiful privilege to let the camera watch the action unfold without spoken words. - Luca Guadagnino

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I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. — Margaret Thatcher

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