#keeping

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. ↗

— Washington Irving

#equable #gifts #good nature #heaven #inexhaustible

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. ↗

— Washington Irving

#come #empty #end #hollow #keeping

What's important to have is a president that's focused on jobs, the economy, giving our children a better future and keeping our nation strong and safe. ↗

— Mary Fallin

#better future #children #economy #focused #future

I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#bottle #burning #burning desire #capable #come

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other. ↗

— Jane Kaczmarek

#each #greatest #greatest joys #having #joys

It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#basketball #committed #dynamic #focused #group

The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control. ↗

— Stuart Varney

#chrysler #control #controls #future #gm

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients. ↗

— Andrew Weil

#i #keep #keeping #learn #learning

If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out. ↗

— Roberta Williams

#computer industry #industry #keeping #more #nobody

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be… ↗

— Joan Didion

#on-keeping-a-notebook #self #love