#devote

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#also #book #books #clumsy #creature

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. ↗

— James Joyce

#devote #his #i #life #make

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else. ↗

— Edie Falco

#acting #anything #devote #else #goal

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#changing #chronically #devoted #energy #find

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#average #average person #between #capacity #devote

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#generation #happiness #human #human rights #inhabitants

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#devoted #effects #energy #government #mismanagement

It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#banish #because #believe #devote #done

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career. ↗

— Milla Jovovich

#before #career #conditional love #devote #easy

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#ago #began #born #commitment #deeper