#inking

So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#clubs #drinking #fail #groups #handle

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#end #let us #may #method #our

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#comes #end #final #genuine #loneliness

I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored. ↗

— Trisha Goddard

#bored #find #get #god #i

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#ascetic #deceives #deplorable #egotism #giving

I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed? ↗

— Victoria Gotti

#awake #come #cry #dad #get

When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice. ↗

— Emily Watson

#acting #applied #came #decision #drama

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#could #devices #easily #hard #hard work

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#because #becomes #difficult #else #everyone

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#cannot #circumstance #course #earlier #equipped