“We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody-small things-or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.” PeopleIfsMenWayWritingLooksBigsHouseCan DoFlowerClothesLettersBlindCleanHumbleMailAlmightyBig ThingsSmall ThingsBlind Man Author:Mother Teresa
“All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.” FirstsStillsBookDoneSchoolLanguageCan DoEducationTeachDependsHighestLettersFinalsUniversityVariousThese DaysCollectionsProfessorsAlphabet Book:On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions
“that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with the twenty-six letters in the alphabet. It's the key that unlocks my spirit, the clearest representation of who I am. When I'm focused, climbing is almost an unconscious act for me. I don't have to drive myself, I'm already driven.” DoeSpiritSportsCan DoExpressionKeysSixLettersTwentiesFocusedDrivenWho I AmPainterUnconsciousClimbingCanvasRepresentationAlphabet Author:Stacy Allison
“I kind of enjoy the limits. If you've got no limits, you can do absolutely anything, it's very difficult, actually. I always enjoyed working with machines like color photocopiers and letter-pressing type settings, things where the limits are very apparent. You push the machine to do something, and it tries to do its best, and it usually has wonderful qualities all of its own. Then you get a sort of dialogue going, and the limitations become qualities.” IfsTryingKindEnjoyDifficultCan DoQualityWonderfulColorTypeLimitsLettersMachinesSettingDialogueSettingsEnjoyedLimitation Author:Dave McKean