As quoted in "Man må tro at det nytter" http://www.bt.no/nyheter/--Man-ma-tro-at-det-nytter-2633333.html (31 December 2011), by Erik Fossen and Håvard Bjelland, BT (in Norwegian)
2010s
“How do I remain what is called "normal"? Because for me it's the natural thing to do, and therefore easier than doing something else.”
How Do I Stay Normal in Hollywood (1942)
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Variant: That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
Essays on Woman (1996), Fundamental Principles of Women's Education (1931)
“So much easier is it to do many things than to do one thing for a long time continuously.”
Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
Book I, Chapter XII, 7; translation by H. E. Butler
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)
“Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.”
Quoted in "Irena Sendlerowa: Warsaw social worker who rescued thousands from the Jewish ghetto" by Rupert Cornwell in The Independent (14 May 2008)
“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
“I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.”