#ten

Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#appeared #before #better #career #concentrate

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#due #explain #here #mystery #once

The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#day #eight #four #growth #hugs

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#beyond #case #confines #constructed #content

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings? ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#attention #been #just #marketing #much

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. ↗

— James Schuyler

#however #much #poem #prose #reduced

Happiness is seeing blessings in disguise, beauty under camouflage, and love amid conflict. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#blessings #contentment #happiness #joy #love

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#happiness #attitude

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out. ↗

— Liev Schreiber

#everyone #generally #interesting #interesting stuff #kind

Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet. ↗

— Liev Schreiber

#adapts #because #easy #hamlet #hard