"Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin."

-- Gyorgy Ligeti

#War Quotes #Years Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.”
“We certainly hoped perestroika would win out and that there would be changes. We knew all along that socialism could flourish only with a certain amount of freedom and democracy.”
“He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.”
“As the older ones, to understand that it is a different time, and young people look at fashion in a different way . . . It's just different. If we harp on about it, they'll feel like we're just old fuddy-duddies, so I just kind of get on with it. I still feel I've got things to say.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?”
“Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.”
“I worked closely with Steve Peters, the British Cycling team's psychologist, and we came up with a strategy of dealing with the pressure. It basically involved displacing the negative thoughts with visualisation. Not a complicated technique, but very effective if done properly. I just kept running through the race in my head over and over so that I wouldn't let the distractions around me put me off.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“I seem to be inside a kind of artificial environment. Almost like a... a simulacrum of Reiden Lake.”

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