Fertilising Quotes & Sayings

I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. — Edgar Degas

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life. — H.G.Wells

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous. — Dennis Lehane

Be sure that you are well compensated for illiquidity - especially illiquidity without control - because it can create particularly high opportunity costs. — Seth Klarman

One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity. — Satya Nadella

If only we could be honest, both admit our fears, touch one another...Then, it might not be so hard to die - in a hospital - with friends close by. — American Journal Of Nursing

The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer. — Oswald Chambers

Culture! Yes - if we had it! But there are just a few little local patches, dying out here and there for lack of - well, hoeing and cross-fertilising: the last remnants of the old European tradition that your forebears brought with them. But you're in a pitiful little minority: you've got no centre, no competition, no audience. You're like the pictures on the walls of a deserted house: 'The Portrait of a Gentleman.' You'll never amount to anything, any of you, till you roll up your sleeves and get right down into the muck. That, or emigrate ... God! If I could emigrate ... — Edith Wharton

The bluegrass community ... can be very strict. I didn't know if I'd be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I think they judge you very fairly ... I felt really welcome. — Steve Martin

Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination. — Virginia Woolf

What's going on here, Tommy? Has Keffers recruited you for his porn patrol? — Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories. — Tibor Kalman

Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it. — Philippe Kahn

We decided we wanted the site to provide readers with fresh new stories to enjoy between major book releases by their favorite authors while allowing those same authors to flex their creative muscles. — Teresa Medeiros

Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love. — Gwendolyn Brooks

Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life. — Malcolm-Jamal Warner

The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble him. It is his work itself that, by fertilising the rare minds capable of understanding it, will make them increase and multiply. — Marcel Proust