#elf

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

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If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#dirty #doing #enough #i #i am

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#much #oneself #perfecting

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#else #emanate #expression #finding #itself

I might not agree with myself in a year. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#i #might #myself #year

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. ↗

— Diogenes

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Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#decisive #down #enough #i #mostly

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race. ↗

— Mary Docter

#i #image #myself #out #race

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

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