"Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments can generally be trusted only if they remain short; even moderately long nonmathematical arguments rapidly becomes farfetched an dubious."

-- Jacob T. Schwartz

#Character Quotes #Long Quotes #Common Sense Quotes

“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.”
“I really try hard to keep a good bead on the pulse of the team. Am I pushing the right buttons? When do I need to be harder on them? When do I need to have a little more fun with them? It's all about timing. The more I can do that the better chance we have for these guys to be hitting on all cylinders and reach their potential.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.”
“I am an indifferent cook, but I can make pie.”
“I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.”
“There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.”
“To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”

Source : Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

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