rise above...
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
- Washington Irving
- Washington Irving
Cellar on a rainy day
As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
-Van Wyck Brooks, writer, critic (1886-1963)
becomes what you...
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mahatma Gandhi
can still...
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
-Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)
To do good
My country is the world and my religion is to do good.
-Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (1737-1809)
Power of the lead
Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.
-Georg Brandes, critic and scholar (1842-1927)
-Georg Brandes, critic and scholar (1842-1927)
100% flawless??
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
-Havelock Ellis, physician, writer, and social reformer (1859-1939)
House & Home
"Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home."
~ Anthony Liccione
Beautiful hypothesis
"The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact"
– Thomas Huxley
important enough
The #1 excuse people give for not getting something done (or well) is:
"I don't or didn't have enough time."
A trick that I came across that helped me with this was to replace "I don't have enough time" with: "That's just not important enough to me to do right now (if at all)."
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