"A gardener's life is full of sweets and sours; He gets the sunshine when he needs the showers."

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Source : Reginald Arkell (1938). “More Green Fingers: Another Present for a Good Gardener”

Reginald Arkell

#Sweet Quotes #Sunshine Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Be your biggest competitor - challenge yourself each day to be better than you were yesterday.”
“The fact that your voice is amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other does not confer upon you greater wisdom or understanding than you possessed when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.”
“Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.”
“I've been very lucky with the people I've met over the years. Way back in the early '70s I went to [Phil] Seuling's conventions for something like three years in a row from '70 to '72 and I remember at the '72 luncheon with the Academy of Comic Book Artists and talking with John Romita about the kind of brushes he used. Pros ask pros the same questions that fans do. "What kind of pens do you use? What kind of brushes do you use?" I was so amazed that the wonderful work John Romita was doing was accomplished with a Windsor-Newton series 7 Number 4. Not a 2 or a 3, but a 4.”
“It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-one believed more than Father Gapon in the bond between Tsar and people.”

Source : Orlando Figes (1997). “A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution”, Viking Pr
“Photography, to me, is the dewdrop that reflects my inner and outer worlds simultaneously.”
“I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.”
“Psychological studies reveal that 95 percent of everything we feel, think, and achieve is a result of a learned habit!”

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