#trial

That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#appropriation #characterized #characterizes #day #european

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#confine #human #human spirit #limit #matters

Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#daily #drop #eventually #ever #feel

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#become #cannot #difficulties #dreads #early

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#courage #patience #trials-of-life #courage

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#fighting #inspirational #trial #inspirational

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#countries #egypt #general #general motors #groups

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems. ↗

— Paul Berg

#chemical #designing #events #far #far less

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#axiom #enforced #experience #industrially #politically

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#human-impact #industrial-revolution #death