Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely.... Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar.… — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar… — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
If you have eternal life at all, it simply means that you have the Son, Jesus Christ NOW! Eternal life is not… — W. Ian Thomas Copy Share Image
“What would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would Dr.… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes… — Irene Nemirovsky Copy Share Image
Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar… — Hans Richter Copy Share Image
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I wanted to work with those boys (producers Andy and Larry Wachowski) because they're so eccentric and peculiar. Larry, of course, is… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The significance of a basic medium to its civilization is difficult to appraise since the means of appraisal are influenced by the… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
