Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca the Younger
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca the Younger
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention.
George Orwell
Literature nowadays is a trade…the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.
George Gissing
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Wallace Stevens
To float like a cloud, you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.
Robert Genn
What are we “doing” when we do nothing but think? Where are we when we, normally surrounded by our fellow-men, are together with no one but ourselves?
Hannah Arendt
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Coco Chanel
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information.
Dr Samuel Johnson
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore