#lit

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#accurately #anything #attention #called #chiefly

A moment of brilliance is not good enough to pay for your mistakes, it's taking responsibility ↗

— Mohamed Mohamed Adel

#life-lessons #mistakes #responsibility #life

The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#american #american people #ask #burden #carry

One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country. ↗

— Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

#catch #circumstance #country #form #get

Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

#better #cases #come #countries #crisis

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students." [Letter, November 1856] ↗

— Hector Berlioz

#lessons #life #mortality #time #true

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#am #best #composers #enormously #everything

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#chance #clear #composition #equation #found

I shed a tear when I meet somebody who always quits. Reliable people are so rare in this world. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #quitting #reliability #funny

I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism. ↗

— Franka Potente

#because #building #care #country #director