"We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates."

-- Robert Coover

#Needs Quotes #Stories Quotes #Randomness Quotes

“I would not presume to say that I know anything about "The Truth," whatever that is.”
“Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.”
“I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.”
“(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.”
“I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude.”
“People can get a bit like, "Oh my God, your life is different than mine." But no, it's not. Everyone's got the same problems. We all get jobs, and we lose them. We have a good time, and we don't have a good time. It's changed in that some people have a certain expectation of what they might find when they meet me, which sucks, because I'm not that thing.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“All the major networks declared Barack Obama the winner at 11 last night, except for MSNBC, which declared Obama the winner six months ago.”
“I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.”

Source : Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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