#kin

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake. ↗

— Alain Prost

#better #chance #could #different #good

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#eyes #having #landscapes #new #new eyes

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves. ↗

— Protagoras

#hold #let us #making #our #ourselves

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discovery #eyes #having #landscapes #new

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discern #every #finds #himself #instrument

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#doctor #heed #illness #kindness #knowledge

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#different kinds #forsake #kinds #many #others

The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars. ↗

— David Prowse

#commercials #desperate #get #i #star

I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago! ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#ago #around #broke #country #different