#sir

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#entered #extraordinary #great #his #into

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achieving #action #desire #goal #possibility

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#alone #any #bestow #country #desire

But the thing which had made him fall for her, fall properly, was the way she seemed so calm and so quiet and so sad. Surrounded by noisy bankers showing off, and their variously pushy or beady or anxious or competitive wives, she seemed to be from somewhere else; a place where people carried their own burdens; a grander and realer and more honourable place. Roger didn't know that Matya spent a lot of that evening thinking about home, but he could tell that she was thinking about something, and it was that other thing which, for him, did it. ↗

— John Lanchester

#crushes #desire #fancy #home #love

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#court #desire #directions #failure #i

As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl. ↗

— Thelma Ritter

#drink #eat #girl #guest #leave

Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director. ↗

— Jacques Rivette

#director #everything #filmed #matter #real

A key ingredient to achieving your goals is to make sure your goals are totally congruent with who you are as a person. Your head and hearts desire must match. It's such an important step in goal achievement and if we miss it, we can end up travelling a long way down the wrong path! ↗

— Rachael Bermingham

#goals-in-life #inspirational-quotes #life-pattern #motivational-quotes #inspirational

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#american people #deep #deep desire #desire #peace

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value. ↗

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#dignity #ends #means #must #our