"Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain. Little photographic snapshots. Then you get the major vision of the poem, which is like a giant magnet to which all these disparate little impressions fly and adhere, and there is the poem!"

-- Carolyn Kizer

#Ideas Quotes #Vision Quotes #Brain Quotes

“There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of mathematics.”

Source : 1979 Causality in Economics.
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”

Source : Wayne Gretzky (2000). “99 My Life in Pictures”, Mint Pub
“Nature was taking back what had once been hers.”

Source : Nevada Barr (2010). “Liberty Falling”, p.2, Penguin
“On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”
“None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires, of moral principles, of self-deception, of altruism, of concern of others, of concerns for ourselves and an interest in our bank accounts. And social policies have to be responsive to the complexity of who we are as people or else, like the war on drugs, they're simply going to fail.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.”
“I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.”
“Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can't keep up.”

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