#elf

I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#another #anyway #been #certainly #complicated

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#books #correcting #course #expected #i

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#control #different #edges #i #i have learned

I hate everything which is not in myself. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#hate #i #myself #which

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#better #end #face #find #journey

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#channels #cherished #confidence #did #difficult

I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level. ↗

— Karl Malone

#i #just #level #make #myself

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#courting #duty #even #first #himself

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#fertilize #genius #interpret #itself #much

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#become #created #crucial #discovery #had