#seeming

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected. ↗

— William Plomer

#creative #creative man #function #man #perceive

I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have. ↗

— John Barton

#combining #dissimilar #drawing #i #ideas

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#best #big #big ones #care #conquer

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#adventurous #change #embrace #exciting #familiar

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

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

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#human progress #impossible #path #progress #seemingly