#ling

Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#complete #consciousness #does #everything #existence

The more one works, the more willing one is to work. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#willing #work #works

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#because #being #benefits #better #comes

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#cheesecake #commissioned #company #get #had

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. ↗

— Michelangelo

#aim #danger #falling #greater #high

America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#burden #coalition #continue #cost #diplomacy

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living. ↗

— David Millar

#because #blamed #bother #came #cell

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#contempt #defense #despised #feelings #own

You do Batman right, and he's going to be popular. He's a great character. I was once asked by somebody if writing 'Batman' was like holding a Ming vase or something. And I said, 'No, it's like holding a big-ass diamond that you can't break. You can throw him against the ceiling, against the floor, anywhere, and you just can't break Batman.' ↗

— Frank Miller

#anywhere #asked #batman #break #ceiling

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination. ↗

— Henry Miller

#any #bad #city #feeble #feeling