#things

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance. ↗

— David Brin

#advance #along #begin #book #characters

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

#attainment #awaits #continuous #desires #feast

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#life #poetry #production #rather #than

We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time. ↗

— Ray Brown

#brings #come #did #get #good

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#half #inexorably #life #nothing #real

I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God. ↗

— Tim Tebow

#better #closer #constantly #every #fail

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. ↗

— Edward Teller

#everything #main #main purpose #more #purpose

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. ↗

— William Temple

#authority #been #bred #confirmed #custom

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song. ↗

— Benmont Tench

#find #i #little #little things #move

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#active #any #around #background #cricket