"I think of moving as a kind of saving grace."

-- Martin Puryear

#Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Grace Quotes

“The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.”
“There's something with actors in their 40s, I don't know - there's this tendency with these guys, either they're not where they wanted to be, or - I mean, this guy was making good money and working a lot. It's almost like they have a bad conscience about the job, like it's unmanly or something, so they try to compensate by busting the director's balls 24/7.”

Source : Source: www.aboutfilm.com
“Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.”

Source : "Dune: House Harkonnen". Book by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, 2000.
“Open office plans, cell phones, constant notifications: these are all things that fight against sustained attention on a task. For some people and some tasks, that doesnâ€™t matter. But for a lot of important work, it matters a lot.”

Source : "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.
“The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.”
“Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.”
“I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.”

Source : Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass (1993). “Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography”, Rizzoli International Publications
“Most astronauts are very down-to-earth people. Many of us, three-quarters, have an engineering degree, and we have a very Cartesian, rational approach to things. You don't go and get swept off your feet. That's not your job and that's not why you're hired. So if you get so mesmerized that you forget to do what you're supposed to do, whether it's to open the cargo door of the space shuttle or configure something inside, then you should not be there as a professional operator.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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