Roles Quotes
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“Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.”
― Souvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba's Embrace
― Souvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba's Embrace

“You like to assign roles to the people in your life. And when they don't play their parts right, you have a hard time accepting that.”
― Pivot Point
― Pivot Point

“The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy

“So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.”
― Ender in Exile
― Ender in Exile

“The point I was trying to make before you interrupted with your inventory
of my personality is that neither of us is going to be able to stay celibate for the next six months."
She dropped her eyes. If only he knew that she'd stayed that way all her life.
We'll be living in close quarters," he went on. "We're legally married, and it's only natural that we're going to get it on."
Get it on? His bluntness reminded her that none of this meant anything to him emotionally, and contrary to all logic, she'd wanted to hear something romantic. With some pique, she said, "In other words, you expect me to keep house, work for the circus, and 'get it on' with you."
He thought it over. "I guess that's about the size of it.”
― Kiss an Angel
of my personality is that neither of us is going to be able to stay celibate for the next six months."
She dropped her eyes. If only he knew that she'd stayed that way all her life.
We'll be living in close quarters," he went on. "We're legally married, and it's only natural that we're going to get it on."
Get it on? His bluntness reminded her that none of this meant anything to him emotionally, and contrary to all logic, she'd wanted to hear something romantic. With some pique, she said, "In other words, you expect me to keep house, work for the circus, and 'get it on' with you."
He thought it over. "I guess that's about the size of it.”
― Kiss an Angel

“One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city -- as I once did for a couple of years.”
― Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
― Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who's often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content.”
― Content Strategy for the Web
― Content Strategy for the Web

“I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage.”
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“You, dear reader, earnestly play all your parts. The roles that were assigned to you without your consent are stuck to your body like a label: A label that you can鈥檛 remove before death. A label that can鈥檛 be removed even after death. The labels are invisible. They鈥檙e not really there, you know. They鈥檝e melted into your flesh. They may have even made their home in a deeper, more abstract part of you. You won鈥檛 be able to fish them out even if you鈥檙e sliced up to the point that your bones are exposed and your guts are spilling out of your carcass.”
― Walking Practice
― Walking Practice

“I was a vase.
The thought struck her as she gazed at the wall of them. She had been a vessel; it was true. She'd stepped into this shop, introduced herself, asked for a job, hoped it would fill her.
And then, sitting with Jacob at the community table, she'd been a flower. Snipped from the root, quick to wilt, temporary. She'd existed to be lovely and to be chosen. No one had expected her to last.
But she hadn't been a flower when she'd gone to live with Claire, had she?
Emilie traveled deeper into the shop. She was in the addition now, its ceiling higher, its rows of tables laden with houseplants. Water, she decided. That's what she'd been with Claire. Shapeless, colorless, but necessary. She'd done what she had to. She had been there for her grandmother. She'd kept her family afloat.
But what was she now?”
― Yerba Buena
The thought struck her as she gazed at the wall of them. She had been a vessel; it was true. She'd stepped into this shop, introduced herself, asked for a job, hoped it would fill her.
And then, sitting with Jacob at the community table, she'd been a flower. Snipped from the root, quick to wilt, temporary. She'd existed to be lovely and to be chosen. No one had expected her to last.
But she hadn't been a flower when she'd gone to live with Claire, had she?
Emilie traveled deeper into the shop. She was in the addition now, its ceiling higher, its rows of tables laden with houseplants. Water, she decided. That's what she'd been with Claire. Shapeless, colorless, but necessary. She'd done what she had to. She had been there for her grandmother. She'd kept her family afloat.
But what was she now?”
― Yerba Buena

“Para mim, o mundo 茅 apenas o mundo, Graciano: um palco em que todos n贸s representamos um papel, sendo o meu triste.”
― The Merchant of Venice
― The Merchant of Venice

“We train boys to believe that the way to become a man is to objectify and conquer women, value wealth and power above all, and suppress any emotions other than competitiveness and rage. Then we are stunned when our boys become exactly what we have trained them to be. Our boys cannot follow our directions, but they are cheating and dying and killing as they try to. Everything that makes a boy human is a 鈥渞eal man鈥檚鈥 dirty secret.”
― Untamed
― Untamed

“We all at some point realize we鈥檙e not so much stuck in our roles as we are stuck in our own heads. It鈥檚 there where the roles exist in the first place.”
― The Complete Works of a Lost Girl
― The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“But you鈥檙e a鈥斺 鈥淲oman?鈥 Ahnna supplied.
鈥淵ou鈥檒l find we hold to a different way of life in Ithicana. What鈥檚 between your legs doesn鈥檛 determine the path you鈥檒l walk in life.”
― The Bridge Kingdom
鈥淵ou鈥檒l find we hold to a different way of life in Ithicana. What鈥檚 between your legs doesn鈥檛 determine the path you鈥檒l walk in life.”
― The Bridge Kingdom

“The artist doesn't hide behind a role 鈥 not even the role of the artist.”
― Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
― Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
“Some people simply aren鈥檛 interested in being the person they are called to be or the person they signed up to be.”
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“Some people simply aren鈥檛 interested in being the person they are called to be or the person they signed up to be.”
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“Leaders who are more concerned about the output of their roles progress far better than those who are more concerned about robes.”
― The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
― The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“O Filho do Todo-Poderoso vem ao mundo, assumindo uma condi莽茫o de grande fragilidade. Necessita de Jos茅 para ser defendido, protegido, cuidado e criado. Deus confia neste homem, e o mesmo faz Maria que encontra em Jos茅 aquele que n茫o s贸 Lhe quer salvar a vida, mas sempre A sustentar谩 a Ela e ao Menino.”
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“During an abduction, it is important to reverse the roles as early as you can through shouting, calling 911 and video recording the event.”
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“Of course different people fulfill different functions in this world. It cannot be otherwise. As far as intellectual or physical abilities are concerned鈥攌nowledge, skills, talents, and energy levels鈥攈uman beings differ widely. What really matters is not what function you fulfill in this world, but whether you identify with your function to such an extent that it takes you over and becomes a role that you play. When you play roles, you are unconscious. When you catch yourself playing a role, that recognition creates a space between you and the role. It is the beginning of freedom from the role. When you are completely identified with a role, you confuse a pattern of behavior with who you are, and you take yourself very seriously. You also automatically assign roles to others that correspond to yours. For example, when you visit doctors who are totally identified with their role, to them you will not be a human being but a patient or a case history.”
― A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
― A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Every day,
I always have
to be
surrounded by
people
Funny how I can鈥檛 live all of their lives
We are always confined to
certain roles,
because other people
take all the other ones”
― For the Intellect
I always have
to be
surrounded by
people
Funny how I can鈥檛 live all of their lives
We are always confined to
certain roles,
because other people
take all the other ones”
― For the Intellect

“Solitude
I don鈥檛 want to live under
your servitude
I just want to fulfill
all the roles
and live all the lives”
― For the Intellect
I don鈥檛 want to live under
your servitude
I just want to fulfill
all the roles
and live all the lives”
― For the Intellect

“You just the organ grinder monkey, he told her. Alvin turns the crank and you just hold the cup for the pennies.”
― Stories from the Attic
― Stories from the Attic
“I don't want Kitt's role in life because I refuse to give him mine. My brother is no killer, and it's better me than him.”
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“Angels and a demon-
She's in a thousand deserts
drowning in semen
Demons and an angel-
both just wanna hike their skirts;
take turns with the label
Well, bless their checkered hearts...”
― NightMARE Crush
She's in a thousand deserts
drowning in semen
Demons and an angel-
both just wanna hike their skirts;
take turns with the label
Well, bless their checkered hearts...”
― NightMARE Crush
“Though normally the Engineer would answer technical questions, Weavers had a tradition of collaboration that encouraged overlap in roles.”
― Shortcut to Victory: How the Weavers did it鈥
― Shortcut to Victory: How the Weavers did it鈥
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