"Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic research, he suggested, is such a bridge built wherever it strikes the builder's fancy-wherever the construction problems seem to him to be most challenging. Applied research, on the other hand, is a bridge built where people are waiting to get across the river. The challenge to the builder's ingenuity and skill, Whitney pointed out, can be as great in one case as the other."

-- Chauncey Guy Suits

#Hands Quotes #Bridges Quotes #Skills Quotes

“Books are my one luxury.”
“Don't dream of winning, train for it.”

Source : "Mo Farah on loneliness of long-distance runner: I eat, sleep, train, rest, look at the walls". Interview with Alex Spink, www.mirror.co.uk. September 7, 2013.
“Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.”
“If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?”
“People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.”
“Miracles pass and I see. Great wonders speak and I listen.”
“Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.”

Source : Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.162, Penguin
“I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.”

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