#reservoir

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. ↗

— William James

#advantage #better #character #concrete #entirely

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me. ↗

— Sting

#big enough #creative #emotional #enough #i

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#charm #dogs #film #i #make

This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of drainage. ↗

— Andrew Gould

#because #drainage #factor #improvement #just

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#continued #counteract #distant #drawing #enough

The mutual warmth that is unknown, a single glass panel...... declares the beginning of everything ↗

— CLAMP

#tsubasa-reservoir-chronicle #manga

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#reservoir #talent #untapped #women #women are

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#appear #assuring #badly #calmness #come

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#develop #draw #ease #even #freedom

I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#advertising #art #art world #based #believe