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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
mediocrity genius birth
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities Cesare Lombroso
mediocrity culture defeat
The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily, Eddie McGuire
mediocrity century bureaucracy
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee. Benedict Cumberbatch
mediocrity
We encourage one another in mediocrity. Charles Lamb
mediocrity useless vapid
There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue. Anton Chekhov
mediocrity application superiority
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. Baltasar Gracian
mediocrity individual sole
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth. Boris Pasternak
mediocrity typical should
Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage. Bruce Henderson
mediocrity possession native
Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions. Blaise Pascal
dangerous
Life has to be dangerous. Alain Robert
dangerous dreading
We've already had some dangerous situations, and I am really dreading March. Todd Matthews
dangerous dread grass january month number situation
We've already had a dangerous situation in January with a number of grass fires. But the month I dread is March.
dangerous extremely hackers issue microsoft sets sharing smart takes time tools using
There are some extremely smart hackers out there using and sharing the tools that find these vulnerabilities. When Microsoft takes a long time to issue fixes, it sets up a dangerous situation,
dangerous extra half pass played second spread tonight
We spread them out and made the extra pass in the second half. The first half was one pass and one shot. You got to at least make them play defense, we didn't do that in the first half. We could have been pretty dangerous tonight if we played all 32 minutes.
dangerous-world worry emotion
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should. Bertrand Russell
dangerous instance particular
General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances. Charlotte Mary Yonge
dangerous
It's dangerous to short stocks. Charlie Munger
dangerous populism
Populism is dangerous. Benjamin Netanyahu