#moment

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort. ↗

— Charles J. Givens

#effort #expending #first #momentum #produce

Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart. ↗

— Raisa Gorbachyova

#always #carry #heart #just #moment

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer. ↗

— Rachel Griffiths

#developing #i #moment #producer #screenplays

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close. ↗

— David Hockney

#cities #close #confess #first #got

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#beautiful #being #believe #completely #feel

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#death #i #moment #surprised

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#breath #brief #brief moment #granted #grave

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. ↗

— George Jessel

#brain #human #human brain #moment #never

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. ↗

— Michael Johnson

#best #brief #compared #given #hard

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. ↗

— Erica Jong

#beloved #born #dies #emotional #fall