Quotations

"Yelling louder does not help me understand you any better! Don't be afraid of me. Come closer to me. Bring me your gentle spirit. Speak more slowly. Enunciate more clearly. Again! Please, try again. S-l-o-w down. Be kind to me. Be a safe place for me. See that I am a wounded animal, not a stupid animal. I am vulnerable and confused. Whatever my age, whatever my credentials, reach for me. Respect me. I am in here. Come find me."

— Jill Taylor, American brain scientist, born 1959

"Our cells stimulate our pain receptors in order to get our brain to focus and pay attention. Once my brain acknowledges the existence of the pain, then it has served its purpose and either lightens up in intensity, or goes away."

— Jill Taylor, American brain scientist, born 1959

"Peace is only a thought away."

— Jill Taylor, American brain scientist, born 1959

"With young people, it's how brassy and flashy can you be. But you get a bit older, it's about how restrained can you be. You have to feel it all, think it all, but you don't have to play it - it's just gotta be there, and if the story's good and the script's good, people will see it."

— Robert Taylor, American actor, born 1911

"Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music."

— Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, born 1840

"After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison."

— Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, born 1840

"I saw a star slide down the sky, blinding the north as it went by. Too burning and too quick to hold, Too lovely to be bought or sold. Good only to make wishes on, and then forever to be gone."

— Sara Teasdale, American poet, born 1884

"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."

— Sara Teasdale, American poet, born 1884

"When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself."

— Tecumseh, Native American Shawnee warrior, born 1768

"Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle."

— Shirley Temple, American actress, born 1928

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."

— Shirley Temple, American actress, born 1928

"An hour of anxiety cannot change my circumstances, but a minute of prayer can alter everything."

— Elbridge Bryant, American singer, born 1939

"Michelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the face is distorted in the mirror so it is much more than a simple reflection. Sometimes something surprising emerges – some darkness or secret appears without us knowing why or giving it permission."

— Joyce Tenneson, American photographer, born 1945

"I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me."

— Joyce Tenneson, American photographer, born 1945