"No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field."

-- Arnold J. Toynbee

#Essence Quotes #Fields Quotes #Action Quotes

“Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.”
“My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point.”
“My first pilot gig; in fact my first job in television; was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If the proposed ordinance is adopted it will hurt small women- and minority-owned businesses the most, the majority of which are already struggling mightily to do business in this city of higher-than average costs of doing business.”
“Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.”
“Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.”
“Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!”

Source : Bret Harte (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Bret Harte (Illustrated)”, p.6563, Delphi Classics
“Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.”

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