#ows

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you're finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can't have in novels. ↗

— John Green

#basement #book #come #community #development

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research. ↗

— Owen Chamberlain

#firm #foundation #gradually #grows #only

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity. ↗

— George Grenville

#enforce #government #how #knows #temper

If the tanks succeed, then victory follows. ↗

— Heinz Guderian

#succeed #tanks #then #victory

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#gather #grows #information #sleep #unprofitable

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it? ↗

— Alec Guinness

#fool #foolish #more #who

I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged. ↗

— Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

#believe #dimension #emerge #families #help

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere. ↗

— Philip Guston

#anywhere #come #desire #directly #even

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? ↗

— Philip Guston

#desire #even #experience #i #know

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

#close #defense #domestic #economic #energy