How Do I Stay Normal in Hollywood (1942)
Jens Stoltenberg (1959) Norwegian politician, 13th Secretary-General of NATO, 27th Prime Minister of Norway
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) <br class="br">2010s
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
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.
Edith Stein (1891–1942) Jewish-German nun, theologian and philosopher
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.
Quintilian (35–96) ancient Roman rhetor
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.”
Irena Sendler (1910–2008) Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer
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.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
“I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
