"We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not."

-- Ray Kurzweil

#Ideas Quotes #Self Quotes #Conscious Quotes

“One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.”
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”
“A theme of digital success is keeping it simple.”
“You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!”
“If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.314, Transaction Publishers
“In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.”
“Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.”
“I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.”

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