#elle

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#conviction #excellent #into #itself #never

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#gift #heavenly #highest #hung #intellect

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. ↗

— Dick Cavett

#label #me #misunderstanding

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort. ↗

— Chanakya

#done #effort #excellent #him #intends

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#day #every #every day #excellent #give

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. ↗

— Leon Uris

#best #book #cry #first #nine

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#because #clearly #european #i #intellectual

I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#behind #comedy #got #i #i think

Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it. ↗

— Tim Cook

#change #culture #excellence #going #i

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#more #need #power #seen #spiritual