"I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have also found that sitting down, however reluctantly, with the pen in my hand, I have never worked for one quarter of an hour without finding myself in full train ..."

-- Harriet Martineau

#Inspiration Quotes #Hands Quotes #Sitting Down Quotes

“How can we still speak of the salvation and reformation of Europe, when we have to ask Europe's destroyer for help?”

Source : "The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership". Book by Joachim Fest, p. 171, 1999.
“He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.”
“I want to work hard, and when good roles come along I don't want to pass them up.”
“All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.”

Source : Rudy Rucker (1999). “Seek!: Selected Nonfiction”, p.92, Running Press
“Day by day, tiny specks of us float away.”

Source : Roger Housden (2014). “Keeping the Faith Without a Religion”, p.56, Sounds True
“A Champion is all they can be in every facet of their lives. They prioritize what they need to get done. But for me it's someone who works every single day on being a better person.”
“Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.”
“You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.”

Source : Address at the United Nations Climate Summit, delivered 23 September 2014, New York, NY

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