#won

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ↗

— Aristotle

#acted #art #because #excellence #habit

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#i #i wonder #other #people #set

There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#another #been #called #career #dream

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#contemplation #had #his #known #life

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself. ↗

— Mary Astell

#always #another #expects #himself #his

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are. ↗

— David Attenborough

#aware #conservation #did #even #his

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. ↗

— David Attenborough

#amazement #beautiful #feel #important #must

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#been #beginning #could #driven #first

I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#i #mixed #title #wimbledon #won

It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif. ↗