"You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain."

-- Yoshida Kenko

#Smell Quotes #Brain Quotes #Noses Quotes

“When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.”

Source : "iRobot Cracked Open A Huge Market By Ignoring Everything People Thought About Robots". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2014.
“I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was moved from first base coach to the ambassadorship, but none was ever given.”

Source : Mookie Wilson, Erik Sherman (2014). “Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets”, p.134, Penguin
“For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.”
“I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.”
“It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.”

Source : Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.230, Penguin
“It's funny to see the people connect with Fast & Furious the way they do. I had no clue, I didn't get it. And now, more I get it and I see it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Paul Walker from Apr 24, 2015
“Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.”
“When you are exhausted from trying, try just one more time.”

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