#eve

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

#come #determination #discouragement #energy #enthusiasm

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about? ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#productivity #time #truth #business

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet. ↗

— King Edward VIII

#advice #chance #count #down #ever

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control. ↗

— Terry Riley

#control #everyone #kind #mode #own

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#answers #day #distant #even #into

Everyone gets criticized. ↗

— LeAnn Rimes

#everyone #gets

You can't be 16 forever. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

#you

I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#her #i #i can #interested #madonna

But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, during the same winter, and that the money raised by them was also applied towards paying for the Orrery. ↗

— David Rittenhouse

#applied #believe #case #course #dr

One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, 'I don't really necessarily want to hang out with this guy' or 'I would never be this kind of guy in my life.' I think it's part of an actor's job to say, 'Maybe you could be.' ↗

— Jason Ritter

#actor #character #could #find #fun