#indefinable

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait. ↗

— Countee Cullen

#call #except #getting #hard #hard work

For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous. ↗

— Sanya Richards-Ross

#going #i #indefensible #indefinable #manner

There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved. ↗

— Chris Brasher

#must #olympics #preserved #something #soul

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality