#pen

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect. ↗

— Charlton Heston

#lifetime #never #once #perfect #spend

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

#between #character #corruption #delicate #eternal

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#health #like #lose #miser #spendthrift

Our trade opens to all the world. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#our #trade #world

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul. ↗

— Joan Jett

#depends #felt #guess #i #just

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#i #new #new york #spent #theater

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#any #behaviour #bigoted #find #form

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#first #first of all #god #heaven #known

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. ↗

— Yousuf Karsh

#camera #heart #lens #look #mind

I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#balls #before #coming #conscious #conscious mind