#mo

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. ↗

— Marsha Sinetar

#again #burning #burning desire #desire #disappointment

Do what you love and the money will follow. ↗

— Marsha Sinetar

#do what you love #follow #love #what you love #will

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#common #find #greatness #unique

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#becomes #begins #between #death #emotion

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing. ↗

— June Singer

#drive #ever #go #hood #knowing

I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them. ↗

— Marc Singer

#backing #difficult #director #documentaries #experience

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years. ↗

— Peter Singer

#ancient #army #get #his #home

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it. ↗

— Peter Singer

#ethical #ethics #explicitly #fact #given

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy. ↗

— Peter Singer

#anywhere #calling #democracy #dominated #elections

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cows #even #i #i think #leading