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When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them. You are the only custodian of your own integrity, and the assumptions made by those that misunderstand who you are and what you stand for reveal a great deal about them and absolutely nothing about you.


Maria Popova

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MARIA SHARAPOVA I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a mor...
MARIA BAMFORD In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more fr...
MARIA SEMPLE The language of the ordinance implies that we're in the business of prostitution rather than massage...
MARIA ROSSI I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who a...
MARIA SHRIVER Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
MARIA MITCHELL Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not
MARIA MITCHELL I’m not the next anyone, I’m the first Maria Sharapova
MARIA SHARAPOVA I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long t...
MARIA SEMPLE Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obs...
MARIA MONTESSORI Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
MARIA CALLAS When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply a...
MARIA SEMPLE Following intuition allows decision and action to be made in the same instant.
MARIA ERVING You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far...
MARIA SHARAPOVA When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good momen...
MARIA SHARAPOVA The ego is the self that is unaware of itself so unless you seek first who you are not, the ego will...
MARIA ERVING The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of...
MARIA JERITZA Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a f...
MARIA MONTESSORI I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's...
MARIA SEMPLE There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unr...
MARIA SEMPLE We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somew...
MARIA MONTESSORI Unknown artists, creating what they are told, give their copyrights to the corporations that they wo...
MARIA BROPHY Painting is a messy business.
MARIA BROPHY If a client doesn’t value your work, then you shouldn’t sell it to them cheap, or trade it, & de...
MARIA BROPHY I have found that the people who don't like contracts because they say contracts show lack of trust ...
MARIA BROPHY