#spring

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail. ↗

— Charles Edison

#attention #else #fail #hand #his

The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later. ↗

— James Tobin

#elizabeth #fay #few #fortune #good

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ↗

— James Whistler

#because #genius #granted #heaven #hereditary

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#chaos #discontent #god #made #man

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. ↗

— Bern Williams

#day #hope #lord #probably #same

I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#because #body #bruce #bruce springsteen #heroic

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#democracy #freedom #heroic #i #nations

Only now, on the other side of his success, Bruce had come to understand what time and experience can do to the most closely held dreams. The point in your late twenties when you're grown up enough to realize that 'life is no longer wide open'. ↗

— Peter Ames Carlin

#dreams

The deep roots never doubt spring will come. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#doubt #faith #spring #trust #faith

Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that bloomed and died in a matter of weeks, before the trees leafed out and shaded them. She liked the way the word sounded in her head. I am an ephemeral. It made her feel like something passing and precious. ↗

— Pamela Todd

#ephemerality #flowers #precious #spring #faith