#seeming

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#always #being #being busy #busy #does

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#characters #desperate #easier #found #fragile

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#conformity #consequences #credit #false #gain

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#better #catastrophes #century #cnn #consequence

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.' ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#choice #comes #down #good #horrendous

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. ↗

— Sivananda

#be patient #failures #good #now #patient

Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance. ↗

— Yao Ming

#distance #everybody #i #i am #improving

When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers. ↗

— David Amram

#approaching #believe #books #created #different

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals. ↗

— Walt Disney

#animation #caricature #cartoon #develop #different

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone. ↗

— Patty Duke

#most #practical #seemingly #simplest #someone