#th

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin. ↗

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward. ↗

— Doug Collins

#forward #i #mind #one thing #pass

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#architect #asked #beijing #breathe #certainly

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#boredom #drives #either #get #host

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. ↗

— George Eliot

#dead #forgotten #never #our #them

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. ↗

— George Eliot

#alive #beautiful #certain #certain things #feel

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. ↗

— George Eliot

#began #face #life #loving #mother

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. ↗

— George Eliot

#called #enough #failure #good #grander

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. ↗

— George Eliot

#anything #detect #fold #heart #never

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. ↗