#elf

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. ↗

— Robert Frost

#circles #forward #himself #how #indicates

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#greatness #neglect #self

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#character #dream #forge #hammer #into

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. ↗

— David Frum

#believed #certain #commit #committed #could

My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#apartment #ask #attractive #because #buildings

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#awhile #could #devoted #family #forgot

No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#afterwards #america #bring #congress #ever

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#being #else #ever #i #like

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#back #day #depressed #every #every day

I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#behind #designer #excited #extend #father