The most powerful call to action of anything that we've ever tested: Let's get to work. I didnt create that phrase. It came from Rick Scott, the current governor of Florida.
There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.
The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons. . . but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth. "
At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch. ” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.
Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i. e. love.
I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.
Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across.