#able

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either. ↗

— Brian Eno

#afterwards #again #composing #either #gardener

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. ↗

— Jules Verne

#after #alone #been #black #could

You want the audience to be uncomfortable. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#uncomfortable #want #you

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#far #hit #important #makes #more

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ↗

— George Eliot

#feel #greater #human #human souls #joined

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#capable #comradeship #each #enter #foundation

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#brute force #charm #effect #employing #force

The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially. ↗

— Ann Veneman

#back #came #cow #cows #id

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#more #product #sometimes #than #valuable

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. ↗

— Epictetus

#conducive #dangerous #dangerous thing #difficult #effort