#ling

I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time. ↗

— George Shearing

#assume #better #current #duke #duke ellington

We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year. ↗

— George Shearing

#months #travelling #year

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#longer #novel #often #process #self-doubt

I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#doing #i #interfere #knew #right

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

#different #enduring #happiness #pleasure #something

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#chaos #completely #divine #element #encircle

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#certainly #chance #i #i think #maybe

And if doctor says that you don't have IBS with constipation, you might want to get a second opinion, because I had doctors that were telling me... of course, a lot of this has to do with science - progressing. ↗

— Cybill Shepherd

#course #doctor #doctors #get #had

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#act #amount #coming #depends #good

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#desk #down #framed #had #hangs