#awake

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. ↗

— Patricia Neal

#expectations #expects #master #own #teacher

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #awake #day #mean #must

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#funny #i #lie #night #nixon

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief. ↗

— Charles Olson

#been #belief #country #got #unconscious

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#days #hell #keeps #lot #me

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awakening #beautiful #beauty #book #confessions

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#determination #hard #hard work #i #lie

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#awaken #divine #divine nature #nature #within

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ↗

— Plato

#awake #dream #how #moment #our

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! ↗

— Alexander Pope

#brain #chain #chambers #countless #hidden