"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."

-- A. C. Benson

#Business Quotes #Mean Quotes #Decision Quotes

“The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.”
“For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.”
“Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.”

Source : Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press
“My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.”
“Do you love me for me?... I don't even love me for me.”
“The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there.”
“Progress is the stride of God.”
“youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older ...”

Source : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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