When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
More Quotes from Isak Dinesen:
In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet.Isak Dinesen
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen
A herd of elephant... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.
Isak Dinesen
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Isak Dinesen
I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.
Isak Dinesen
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.
Isak Dinesen
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Time Quotes, Work & Career QuotesWhen you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.
Alex Lowe
It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.
Bobby Charlton
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
Eddie Bernice Johnson