#thing

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed. ↗

— Wolcott Gibbs

#anything #barns #bats #being #better

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do. ↗

— Bob Gibson

#athlete #being #doing #else #finest

The only thing I was any good at was music. ↗

— Don Gibson

#good #i #music #only #the only thing

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#means #perception #separate #thing

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#animal #assume #conceived #ecological #environment

I've never had to fight hard for anything I've gotten in the past. ↗

— Tyrese Gibson

#fight #gotten #had #hard #i

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. ↗

— Andre Gide

#again #back #been #before #beginning

So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#conceive #continues #down #field #first

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#desire #element #even #grows #independent

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#desire #illogical #more #nothing #remembrance