Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.' ”

I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life. ”

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need. ”

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area. ”

Poets these days, like artists and composers, have won for themselves almost unlimited freedom. You can pass yourself off as a painter without being able to draw, as a composer without being conscious of key relationships, and as a poet without making yourself familiar with traditional verse forms. ”

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people. ”

I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents. ”

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. ”

For the first part of my career, I did what I was told, and I wasn't getting anywhere. I'd get in such a state when I was asked to do something, and it didn't feel right, and I'd end up feeling that I wasn't very good. ”

My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young. ”