"Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace."

-- James Gleick

#Lying Quotes #Care Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldnâ€™t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. Iâ€™d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”
“All it takes is to pick up that one piece of trash you pass everyday on your way to work. Or to turn the water faucet off when you're brushing your teeth from afar. Or to compost. Or to buy 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper. Or to utilize vintage stores and secondhand markets. Or to fully devote yourself to only buying vegetables from local sources. It is remarkably easy to incorporate sustainable choices into our everyday, busy lives.”
“The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.”
“Los Angeles people are incapable of passively mainlining TV and movies. Here you have to read who produced or directed every episode, who wrote it, who had guests shots and whether you know them personally and if they like you. You have to figure out who everybody's agent is and whether yours is better. You not only know but deeply care about the difference between such job titles as Producer, Supervising Producer, and Executive Story Editor. ... So while the rest of the country is lying stupid in a media-induced coma, people in L.A. are in constant withdrawal.”
“Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.”
“The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.”

Source : William Lyon Phelps (1939). “Autobiography: with letters”, Ams Pr Inc
“You should never want to be a one position player. If you're a real basketball player, you should be able to play any position. That's the difference between really good players and average players.”

Source : Source: www.nba.com
“Enduring to the end is definitely not a do-it-yourself project.”

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