#Attitude Quotes #Skills Quotes #Understanding Quotes
“From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.”
“Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.”
Source : "Axiomatic". Book by Greg Egan, eidolon.net. 1995.
“Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing you notice anymore, you think about your future, or what's left of it, consider options.”
“The poet is a madman lost in adventure.”
“You get an education in school and in college. And then you start to work. and that's when you learn!”
“Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master.”
“I knew that my hair was falling out and I had really weird skin. My face looked really weird and I was getting this fuzz on my face and I was always cold - always to the point of uncontrollably shaking. I was more scared that 85 lbs. wasn't good enough. I wanted to be lower.”
“I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.”
Edwin Catmull Computer Scientist
Joseph Michelli Author
Karl E. Weick
Norman Maclean Author
Todd G. Buchholz Economist
Gary A. Klein Psychologist