"One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden."

-- Steven Strogatz

#Eye Quotes #World Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?”
“Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.”

Source : Valerie Miner (2014). “Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage”, p.37, Open Road Media
“And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.”

Source : Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”
“It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message. The reason I do it is because I want to understand something myself. It's not a delivery device, it's an inquiry device. Didactic fiction to my mind never works. It backfires.”
“Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.”
“I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people.”
“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”

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