#work

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#entered #extraordinary #great #his #into

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. ↗

— Annie Proulx

#brevity #find #i #intellectually #intensity

I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out. ↗

— David Prowse

#been #big #boost #campaign #disabled

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#morality #art

When I'm older, I want to have my own workout clothes line, like leggings and cute jackets in bright and fun colors. ↗

— Aly Raisman

#clothes #colors #cute #fun #i

What I do and what I record only work for the moment. ↗

— Leon Redbone

#i do #moment #only #record #work

I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes. ↗

— Wolfgang Puck

#learned #more #ones #restaurant #successes

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#book #erred #helped #interpretations #me

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#concentrated #day #hard #hard work #i

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#bold #challenge #counterfeit #hath #her