"A single discovery within a lifetime is a very remarkable thing. Two over the course of a career-why, you'd be very lucky indeed."

-- Alar Toomre

#Discovery Quotes #Careers Quotes #Two Quotes

“In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory.”
“Maybe it was a Patty Hearst thing. Stockholm syndrome or whatever it's called when you're being held against your will but then you become sucked in and fall in love. Or if not exactly love, you fall into something you can't see out of. 'I can't shoot a machine gun' becomes 'Hey, this hardly has any kick-back!”
“I knew that I wanted to create rich themes, and something that people might really relate to emotionally. That was the quest, authenticity, and then just to make the audience feel something.”

Source : Source: www1.cbn.com
“Also,I loathe it when you refer to me as dude" Eric Sinclair to Betsy”
“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be tomorrow.”
“Good judges are always open to the possibility of changing their minds based on the next brief that they read, or the next argument that's made by an attorney who's appearing before them, or a comment that is made by a colleague during the conference on the case when the judges privately discuss the case.”

Source : Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006
“I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.”
“The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.”

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