#pond

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#come #despondency #everything #give #however

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare. ↗

— Claudia Christian

#crew #extraordinary #occasionally #rare #responds

I would love if gay men responded to me. All I want is for many gay men to dress up as me for Halloween. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#gay #halloween #i #love #many

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness. ↗

— Julian Clary

#correspondence #currently #forgiveness #i #interesting

I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#duck #everyone #i #lone #pond

The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept. ↗

— James Collins

#application #ask #become #concept #directly

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#conversation #correspondence #did #ever #fbi

As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#centuries #christianity #correspondingly #declined #followed

A rose lay open in full bloom and, looking from my garden room, I watched the sun-baked flower fill with rain. It seemed so fragile, resting there, and such a silence filled the air, the beauty of the moment caused me pain. "What more?" I thought. "There must be more." As if in answer then, I saw one weighty drop that caused my rose to fall. It trembled, then cascaded down to earth just staining gentle brown and, since then, I've felt different. That's all. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#poetry #pondering #simplicity #beauty

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#connecticut #day #defense #every #every day