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«When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.»
Author: Jacob Riis
(Photographer, Reporter)
| Keywords:
a hundred, a hundred times, blow, Blown Away, crack, going away, gone, hammered, hammering, hammers, hammer in, hundred-and-first, hundred, I go, look at, much as, Nothing yet, perhaps, rock, seems, showing, split, splits, splitting, split up, stonecutter
«Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
| About:
Anger,
Death and dying,
Laughter,
Living
| Keywords:
alive, alive with, angry, As Good as Dead, as much as possible, dead, good and, hell, like hell, much as, soon, soon enough, wholly
«The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
| About:
Writers,
Writing
| Keywords:
advice, alive, alive with, angry, As Good as Dead, as much as possible, breathe, deeply, eat, food, food for thought, good and, in good taste, like hell, much as, solid, solidest, soon enough, taste, wholly, writer
«We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admit, coin, Coined, coining, complain, flip, juries, jury, jury system, much as, operate, operate on, operating system, possibly, system
«We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.»
Author: Epictetus
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
And One, ears, in one ear, mouth, much as, twice
«When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.»
«We have no organ at all for knowledge, for ''truth'': we ''know'' (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called ''usefulness'' is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.»
«We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.»
