"Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost."

-- Charles Goodnight

#Compass Quotes #Instinct Quotes #Lost Quotes

“Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.”
“And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information a kind of calm. They no longer tried, with a bright and desperate effort, to sustain a conversation with somebody's brother, somebody's usher, somebody's roommate, somebody's roommate's usher's brother... The category of wallflower who had given up on all this was very quiet, not indifferent, only quiet. And she always brought a book.”
“When people say formula, there's almost a little bit of a negative construct to it. It's nice when people describe someone as a "hit factory," but it makes it sound like you're just making baked beans or something.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob.”

Source : Bob Garfield (2009). “The Chaos Scenario”
“It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to be observed in the conducting of experiments, which cannot well be described in words, but which it is needless to describe, since practice will necessarily suggest them; though, like all other arts in which the hands and fingers are made use of, it is only much practice that can enable a person to go through complex experiments, of this or any kind, with ease and readiness.”
“Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.”
“We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There's none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane.”

Source : "Me and my travels". Interview with Jon Bennett, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.
“The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant, we must think in limitless terms of abundance.”

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