#hal

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#challenge #desk #face #genius #go

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#bold #challenge #counterfeit #hath #her

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#being #challenging #had #him #i

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass. ↗

— Aishwarya Rai

#buddhist #following #hurled #i #now

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. ↗

— Walter Raleigh

#happily #heels #his #history #may

The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later? ↗

— Otto Rank

#analyst #apply #correct #curative #didactic

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm. ↗

— Jef Raskin

#come #computer #harm #inaction #shall

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary. ↗

— Jef Raskin

#more #necessary #our time #require #shall

I think so many young girls get caught up in the challenge of being with somebody who's dangerous, who's bad, who's enticing, who's all of those things, and you forget what it's like to enjoy simple love. ↗

— Nikki Reed

#being #caught #challenge #dangerous #enjoy

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#circumstances #effect #fact #fixed #influence