Author: Anna Andrews-Mills
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Quote: Virtues
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. ~ Ernest Hemingway Why share this quote? Why did it have an impact on me? The last words hit me […]
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Quote About the Way We Think
The reality is that most of us grow up strapped in an educational system that favors obedience over independent thinking. We’re rewarded for trusting authority, and punished for challenging it. We focus on memorizing the stuff other people came up with – formulas in math, grammar rules in English, theories in physics, cell functions in […]
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Reading, Reading, and More Reading
I like being able to jump around and explore different topics depending on what I’m thinking about at the time.
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Book Thoughts: Are you Predictably Irrational?
Simply thinking about money made participants less likely to ask for help.
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The Evolution of a Painting
Being partially motivated by being around artwork and artists all day, and partially motivated by the curator at the time Liz Szabo I was actually making art with that intention.
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Quote to Write By
“So okay – there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You’ve blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you […]
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Writing
I blog, I journal, I write stories and story ideas, I write a lot of emails and I spend a lot of time reading.
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Abstract Sunburst Painting from College Days
I created this painting as an assignment in my first oil painting class.
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Quote to Think About
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we are quoting.” ~ John Green
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