"What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages."

-- Philip Glass

#Talking Quotes #Focus Quotes #Listening Quotes

“I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I used to know one of the world's leading mathematicians and whenever we played chess I had to give him the odds of a Queen to make matters more equal, and even then I always won.”
“The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.”
“A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.”
“What are you looking at?â€ she asks. What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was put on this earth to find? Yes.”
“The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.”

Source : F. L. Lucas (2015). “The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell and Goldsmith”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected.”

Source : Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
“In a safe Western world where we're not being shot at and we're not starving, the worst thing that happens to us most days is someone's rude to us, or we accidentally insult someone. Social faux pas is the worst thing that happens to most people, most days, so we've got to concentrate on that, really.”
“I think Ashley Young is world class, Id put him in a bracket with Lionel Messi and Ronaldo”

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