"Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in."

-- Michael Chabon

#Writing Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?”

Source : François Le Lionnais (2004). “Great Currents of Mathematical Thought: Marthematics in the Arts and Sciences”, p.126, Courier Corporation
“People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women.”
“If you are operating in a certain way and you are thinking in a certain direction, suddenly opportunities arise. And if you are open to it, if you are not locked into your style too much or to what you think works.”
“I love costumes in dance, I think it's very important. The clothes for dancing not only make you feel like somebody else, but it makes you move in a different way.”
“When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.”
“Whether it's at their job, or their family, whatever - everyone feels that they're stuck in some kind of struggle. The idea is how to find your way out of it.”
“You have psychopaths and sociopaths in charge.”
“Wizard's Eighth Rule Talga Vassternich. (Deserve Victory)”

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