"The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun."

-- Burton Silverman

#Effort Quotes #Energy Quotes #Finishing Quotes

“Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.”
“We're making efforts regarding the total flow of the Zelda game. So far, the basic flow of the Zelda games is you're exploring a field, you go to a dungeon, you conquer it and return to the field. We're looking at altering that traditional flow. That's all I can share, and I can't say more until E3 next year.”
“To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 29, 2013
“Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.”
“O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.
“In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.”
“That man is out of reach of harm in this life, who is sure of possessing heaven in the next. This is the portion of every believer.”
“The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.”

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