"What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?"

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Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.556, Head of Zeus

Peter Watts

#Sunset Quotes #Survival Quotes #Obsessing Quotes

“I like singing in harmony - I like not having to sing every song.”

Source : "We're the Mrs Robinsons of rock". Interview With Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.
“They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length.”
“Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.”

Source : Henry Mintzberg (1980). “The Nature of Managerial Work”, Prentice Hall
“The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was produced by private enterprises in a profit-and-loss system. And losses were at least as important in weeding out failures, as profits in fostering successes. Let government succor failures, and we shall be headed for stagnation and decline.”
“I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind”
“Don't convince yourself you're over, don't convince yourself you're done, just because the things around you seem heavy, doesn't mean you can't get off this ground.”
“Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.39, Oxford University Press
“The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story or another, or at least sketch out my characters, and research various issues related to my characters' dilemmas.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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