As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth. ~Gautama Buddha
#quotes #gautama-buddha #buddhist

You can almost taste the pressure now. ~Vin Scully
#quotes #vin-scully #pressure

I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
#quotes #robert-smith #achievement

In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite. ~David Coleman
#quotes #david-coleman #humor

I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
#quotes #melody-carlson #writing #process

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs

Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
#quotes #ray-kurzweil #intelligence #simplicity #complexity

There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
#quotes #gary-taubes #motivation #creativity #science

"Alien" asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. "The Matrix" delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. ~Jason Reitman
#quotes #jason-reitman #writing #movies #reality

A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs

Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
#quotes #eric-ries #start-up #success

In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. ~Greg Boyle
#quotes #greg-boyle #gang #los-angeles

For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it. ~Justin Bartha
#quotes #justin-bartha #theater

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
#quotes #michael-servetus #god #mistakes

I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly. ~Pete Sampras
#quotes #pete-sampras #success

In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
#quotes #george-macdonald #god #failure #success

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
#quotes #dorothy-denning #government #privacy

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
#quotes #charlayne-hunter-gault #government #poverty #south-africa

Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
#quotes #isamu-noguchi

I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal. ~Eoin Colfer
#quotes #eoin-colfer #law

It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
#quotes #georges-cuvier