"When I look out the window at my backyard, I can't think of anything interesting to ask. I mean, it's green, it's growing-but nothing occurs to me that any concentrated effort of thought could possibly enlighten. Whereas in economic, statistical, or mathematical kinds of things, I can think lots of questions."

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Source : "Inside the Crisis" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. October 12, 2009.

Lawrence Summers

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.”
“It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition.”
“I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.”
“There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April... The sun trembles in his own soft rays... The grass in the meadow seems all to have grown green since yesterday... though there is warmth enough for a sense of luxury, there is coolness enough for exertion.”

Source : "In a Fair Country".
“I am beginning to understand that the stream the scientists are studying is not just a little creek. It's a river of energy that moves across regions in great geographic cycles. Here, life and death are only different points on a continuum. The stream flows in a circle through time and space, turning death into life across coastal ecosystems, as it has for more than a million years. But such streams no longer flow in the places where most of us live.”
“Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.”
“People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.”
“When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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