"It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs."

-- P.D. Ouspensky

#Men Quotes #Quality Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“The facts of life are very stubborn things.”
“I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.”
“The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others.”
“Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body.”
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.”
“Every image is in some way a â€œportrait,â€ not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force.”
“If your intuition is telling you not to do something, then don't. Your intuition is not stupid.”
“I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.”

Source : Robert Boyle (1738). “The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; Abridged, Methodized, and Disposed Under the General Heads of Physics, Statics, Pneumatics, Natural History, Chymistry, and Medicine. The Whole Illustrated with Notes, Containing the Improvements Made in the Several Parts of Natural and Experimental Knowledge Since His Time. In Three Volumes. By Peter Shaw, M.D.”, p.28

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