#bse

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#affirmative #almost #black #colour #colours

We do not need to attend classroom training programmes for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us ↗

— Sukant Ratnakar

#motivation #observation #self-taught #solutions #motivational

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior. ↗

— David Byrne

#behavior #done #encourages #invites #kind

Absence - that common cure of love. ↗

— Lord Byron

#absence #common #cure

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do. ↗

— Jon Favreau

#chemistry #could #dragons #dungeons #engaged

The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry. ↗

— Vince Cable

#because #british #culture #existing #focusing

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old. ↗

— Michael Caine

#game #grew #i #man #never

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. ↗

— Michael Caine

#excuse #fault #never #nor #present

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#defects #everything #excellent #forgive #general

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent. ↗

— John Calvin

#assistance #augustine #choose #disagree #does