#kin

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#concentrated #day #hard #hard work #i

If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing. ↗

— Sean Covey

#going-with-the-flow #taking-the-lead #life

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now. ↗

— Big Pun

#continuing #everybody #hip-hop #history #i

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#distilled #i #interested #making #never

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#another #authors #comparing #discovered #former

Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now. ↗

— Richard Reeves

#going #mocking #most #night #now

In the spiritual world many forms of the physical universe that are potentially effective can be perceived but with regard to time, we can observe only one form. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience. ↗

— Robert Quine

#early #experience #i #into #lessons

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced. ↗

— Jane Bryant Quinn

#best #fancy #highest #investments #neighborhoods

Positive thinking is great, if you'll take action. ↗

— Guy Harduf

#improvement #positive-thinking #self-improvement #life