#sphere

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A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.


Ann Plato


#contented #education #fit #future #god

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.


Robert Louis Stevenson


#changes #child #fiction #grown #grown man

I have a very strict regimen of showing up at my desk at a certain hour with my cup of green tea. It is very quiet. I don't like having a lot of atmosphere around.


Melissa Rosenberg


#atmosphere #certain #cup #desk #green

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.


Cleveland Abbe


#also #atmosphere #both #close #dreams

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.


Nathalie Sarraute


#handicraft #industry #lifted #major #manufacture

Leave women to find their sphere.


Lucy Stone


#leave #sphere #their #women

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.


Zhang Ziyi


#atmosphere #competing #competitive #day #each

His goal (Bezos's)was not just to make browsing for books easy, but an enjoyable experience. “People don’t just buy books because they need books,” he has said. “There are products like that. Pharmaceuticals are that way. Nobody enjoys browsing the Preparation H counter. But people will gladly spend hours in a bookstore, so you have to make the shopping experience fun and engaging.


Richard L. Brandt


#book-lovers #experience #experience

A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain.


Dejan Stojanovic


#celestial #circling #dejan-stojanovic #dreams #forest

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.


Ann Beattie


#always #around #atmosphere #characters #gets