"People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two."

-- Sara Sheridan

#Lonely Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Two Quotes

“Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation (aesthesis) and creative self-fashioning. It is therefore also devoted to the knowledge, discourses, and disciplines that structure such somatic care or can improve it.”
“Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.”

Source : Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.412
“Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is still a strange item, generally speaking. Even in the arts, among our fellow creative artists in other disciplines, you still feel slightly out of it.”

Source : Source: www.cmc.ie
“We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.”
“We're living in a den of thieves”
“I was appalled to find that the mathematical notation on which I had been raised failed to fill the needs of the courses I was assigned, and I began work on extensions to notation that might serve. In particular, I adopted the matrix algebra used in my thesis work, the systematic use of matrices and higher-dimensional arrays (almost) learned in a course in Tensor Analysis rashly taken in my third year at Queen's, and (eventually) the notion of Operators in the sense introduced by Heaviside in his treatment of Maxwell's equations.”

Source : "Kenneth E. Iverson with Donald B. McIntyre". Autobiographical sketch from an unfinished work, keiapl.info. (ca. 2004).
“The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.”

Source : Barry Lyga (2007). “The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world.”

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