#rate

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#handsome #inspired #large #little #long

The most overrated ingredients are garlic and extra-virgin olive oil. With garlic, it's personal; I have never been that big of a fan of its flavor. As for extra-virgin olive oil, I do use it quite often but its ubiquity serves to overshadow many wonderful oils like pistachio, walnut, argan and even grapeseed. ↗

— Lela Rose

#big #even #fan #flavor #garlic

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#consciousness #corner #covered #extraordinary #i

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ↗

— Harold Ross

#back #day #few #filled #his

Sturm, Swung, Wucht ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#force #general #german #heavy #impulsive

You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life. ↗

— Heather Schuck

#inspirational-life #success-strategies #work-life-balance #inspirational

Robots do not celebrate anything. Celebration is an expression of joy, which cannot be mechanized. ↗

— Ravindra Shukla

#inspirational #robots #inspirational

You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#strategy #inspirational

Celebrate your victories! Be verbal about it. Haters will say you're bragging, but those who love you will celebrate with you. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#haters #inspirational #love #victories #inspirational

For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles. ↗

— Socrates

#poet #socrates #inspirational