"I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Determination Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Dark Quotes

“In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.”
“Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until my children are grown,' then you don't really want to be a writer. If you want to be a writer, you do your writing... If you don't do it, you probably don't want to be a writer, you just want to have written and be famousâ€”which is very different.”
“Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.”

Source : Steven Brust (1999). “The Book of Jhereg”, p.67, Penguin
“There are two things I enjoy most about my work. First, I get to work with interesting and enthusiastic people who are also fired up about science. Second, every once in a while I have moments in which I suddenly understand the solution to a problem that I've been working on - those are great moments.”
“Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.”
“A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.”
“Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.”
“True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.”

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