Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. —Robert A. Heinlein More about this quote Tags: innovation progress change laziness invention Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. —Ursula K. Le Guin More about this quote Tags: life future knowledge uncertainty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It’s amazing what you can get used to. —Jeffrey Eugenides in Middlesex More about this quote Tags: normalcy adaptation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should. —Jean Rostand More about this quote Tags: love ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. —Spike Milligan More about this quote Tags: humor stillness land see seasickness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. —Arthur Koestler More about this quote Tags: discovery invention novelty obviousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. —Franklin P. Adams More about this quote Tags: learning curiosity information serendipity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. —Hesketh Pearson More about this quote Tags: privilege reading learning pride quotation misquotation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It’s like when you take a trip with someone you don’t know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realize all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travelers, if that makes any sense. —Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac More about this quote Tags: love relationship intimacy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Unless we remember we cannot understand. —E.M. Forster More about this quote Tags: understanding learning memory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: attention politics USA boredom television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. —Woodrow Wilson More about this quote Tags: learning intelligence sharing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. —Hermann Hesse More about this quote Tags: identity self hatred Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. —Rose Kennedy More about this quote Tags: time memory pain scar tissue Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are exactly where we have chosen to be. —Vernon Howard More about this quote Tags: action power strength place location Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email