#bse

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#career #eat #forget #i #irresponsible

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#comet #cooper #elements #get #i

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#all day #almost #am #day #fatigue

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#delights #does #earlier #earned #easy

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#considered #cut #decisive #language #observed

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#create #education #giving #means #observation

I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#been #between #disturbance #done #energy

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#first #first thing #geologists #go #make

Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster. ↗

— Kate Moss

#being #braces #child #day #elastic

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal. ↗

— Alice Munro

#feel #i #i feel #know #learned