"It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any."

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Source : Pliny (the Younger) (1807). “The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks”, p.195

Pliny the Younger

#Art Quotes #Skills Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“Grasp the subject, the words will follow.”

Source : Quoted in Caius Julius Victor, Ars Rhetorica
“I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients on our coasts, and another book about evolution. Seasteading captivated me because it incorporates both evolution and environmental restoration.”

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“making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”
“I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.”
“I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium”
“I think laughter is a sacred act.”
“It's a matter of balance of power. If the Supreme Court could just make a ruling and everybody has to bow down and fall on their faces and worship that law, it isn't a law because it hasn't been yet passed.”
“We're living in a world where conservatism is on the rise - from America to Europe and in Singapore, too. People are finding it hard to accept the 'other': those who are different, or who don't conform to societal expectations or norms.”

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