Washington Irving Quotes

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

G. H. Hardy
- Ideas
- More
- Patterns
Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

Radhanath Swami
When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

Harmony Korine
- Time
- Pretty
- Beginning
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

B. Carroll Reece
- Work
- Own
- Work Hard
I don't care about revenues.

Jack Ma
- Care
- About
Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

Barry White
- Strong
- Families
- Brothers