“If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.” IfsEndsWould BeDesireProcessGoes OnEmptyRateSakeChiefsVainInfinityIf Then Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.” ThinkingShouldBelieveProblemActorsAsksSpeakSilenceCompanyImagineCrazyGoes OnReaderEmptyTheaterThoughtfulMore TimeBelieve In MeUncommonGood Company Author:Wallace Stegner
“I use a Bruce Lee technique: "The way of no way". He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.” ThinkingWayMindIdeasStatesUseFightingClearGoes OnEmptyStartingTechniqueBest WayGigs Author:Eddie Izzard
“Some huge work goes on growing. How could one person´s words matter? Where you walk heads pop from the ground. What is one seed head compared to you? On my death day I´ll know the answer. I have cleared this house, so that your work can, when it comes, fill every room. I slide like an empty boat pulled over the water.” KnowsPersonsMatterHouseWaterAnswersWalksRoomsGrowingHugeGoes OnEmptyPopsSeedsBoatSlidesWords Matter Author:Rumi
“Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.” StillsRememberLife IsSoundMemoriesTalkingSadnessGoes OnLaughterEmptyGood ThingsSilentEdgesTime Goes OnJagged Edge Book:Looking Back: A Book of Memories Source: Looking Back: A Book of Memories
“I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they teach you?" And she said, "They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room." I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.” SaidSchoolAmericaGirlRoomsTeachLaughingTaughtGoes OnDramaEmptyEnglandScreensBurningCandleEmpty RoomsCandles Burning Author:Quentin Crisp