{"quotes":[{"text":"Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["avoid","avoidance","challenges","challenging","comfort","comfortable","excellence","familiarity","fear","laziness","lazy","mediocrity","retreat","routine","stance","withdraw","withdrawal"],"id":51564,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["eagle","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","life","life","life-and-sayings","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","noble","noble","powerful","stance","stance-in-life","stance","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":170039,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["eagle","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","life","life","life-and-sayings","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","noble","noble","powerful","stance","stance-in-life","stance","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":170039,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.","author":"Stella Payton","tags":["approach","attitude","belief","concept","conviction","direction","doctrine","dogma","feeling","focus","frame-of-mind","hypothesis","idea","judgment","notion","opinion","outlook","perspective","persuasion","philosophy","point-of-view","sentiment","stance","standpoint","theory-stance","thinking","viewpoint","views","vision","way-of-thinking"],"id":203937,"author_id":"Stella+Payton"},{"text":"Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["acceptance","agreement","approval","attitude","conception","consent","crazy","endorsement","fool","harmony","humor","michael-bassey-johnson","modesty","opinion","point-of-view","polite","politeness","position","say-yes","stance","standpoint","viewpoint","yes","you"],"id":266348,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Sitting makes us think of standingOur current stance keeps on demanding We wish to fly without the wings Puppets move before pulling the strings.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["current","demand","demanding","fly","makes","move","poem","poems","poetry","puppet","puppet-show","puppets","sit","sitting","stance","string","strings","verse","verses","wings","wings-and-flying","wish"],"id":284520,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"When our thoughts are unsettled and our inner world is in a muddle, we may sharpen our wits and try to recognize the invisible edges of our fractured stance. If we seek to figure out, what our life story is all about, we may be able to put the missing pieces in place and identify what is driving us, what we are actually up to and why we are running like mad dogs, sometimes. (“On a doggy day”).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["actually","be-up-to-something","day","doggy","drive","edges","figure-out","fractured","identify","inner-world","invisible","life-story","mad-dogs","missing-pieces","muddle","put-in-place","recognize","run","seek","sharpen","sometimes","stance","thoughts","try","unsettled","wits"],"id":301989,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["appreciate","appreciation","ignoble","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","inelegant","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","noble","scientific","stance","stance-in-life","stance","stance","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers","your-stance"],"id":320810,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["appreciate","appreciation","ignoble","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","inelegant","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","noble","scientific","stance","stance-in-life","stance","stance","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers","your-stance"],"id":320810,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["appreciate","appreciation","ignoble","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","inelegant","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","noble","scientific","stance","stance-in-life","stance","stance","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers","your-stance"],"id":320810,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}