#thin

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#achieving #anything #because #ever #i

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#am #around #essential #face #i

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind. ↗

— Daisy Ashford

#idea #my own #own #these #things

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it. ↗

— Evelyn Ashford

#earn #everything #handed #i #i do

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else. ↗

— Evelyn Ashford

#hard #hard work #i #muscles #my own

Obviously, you check tht she's safe, she's clean, got all the fingers and toes, like that's going to help them through life. It'll help them walk, but you can't pull them out and check their IQ or anything. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#check #clean #fingers #going #got

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#beginning #changing #chapter #clause #couple

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#fantasy #fiction #i #science #science fiction

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#difficult #entropy #grasp #i #increases

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#alive #arise #breathe #enjoy #love