"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful."

-- Marie Curie

#Time Quotes #Work Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery.”

Source : Nolan Ryan, Skip Bayless, Tom House (1991). “Nolan Ryan's Pitcher's Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance”, p.35, Simon and Schuster
“Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by this month seem only stirred to lamentation, giving us year end and 'melancholy days' remarks, thereby showing that theory is stronger than observation among the rhyming brotherhood, or else that they have chronic indigestion and no gardens to stimulate them.”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
“I think 20 years of experience really came to fruition and enabled me to be able to play Cotton Marcus.”
“Comics are a "young" art form, and there is much confusion as to how to treat them. Images have more immediate impact than words, and it is not every reader who can be convinced to relax into experiencing the work for what it is - not words and pictures, but a different form, where the narrative is propelled by the blending of image, word and sequence, and where no element can be extricated and have the same meaning by itself. When this art is shown in a gallery, its "thingness" is called to attention, it is no longer experienced as "story," but rather as an artifact of the artist's process.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion.”
“Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.”
“Just because you're damaged doesn't mean you must damage others. You have choices. We all make them every day.”

Source : Shannon Delany (2012). “Destiny and Deception: A 13 to Life Novel”, p.109, Macmillan
“Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world.”

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