#urns

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#bitterness #climb #enthusiasm #floor #fulfill

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#else #flute #heart #hours #music

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#composed #determine #difficult #either #element

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Everything I touch turns to gold. ↗

— Pete Waterman

#gold #i #touch #turns

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake. ↗

— Brian Greene

#icing #out #right #tasty #theory

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. ↗

— Matt Groening

#elf #gun #jig #little #love

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#before #changes #else #expect #good

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#chapter #hate #heard #i #last

Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#back #bad #bad stuff #better #came