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Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops. ↗


— Althea Gibson


#aspire #consider #fields #most #our

Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences. ↗


— Kirk Gibson


#am #becoming #best #comes #competitor

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. ↗


— William Gibson


#city #clusters #complexity #computer #constellations

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ↗


— Andre Gide


#discover #does #lands #long #long time

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. ↗


— Andre Gide


#annoys #artificial #bores #constructs #eludes

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one. ↗


— Elizabeth Gilbert


#also #constantly #creates #day #effective

I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it. ↗


— Elizabeth Gilbert


#considered #conveniently #destiny #enough #ever

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself. ↗


— Elizabeth Gilbert


#asking #assumption #battle #beat #constantly

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. ↗


— Oliver Goldsmith


#conscience #coward #enough #faults #justice

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds. ↗


— Orville Wright


#command #considered #could #estimate #first






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