"The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols."

-- John Calvin

#Mother Quotes #Heart Quotes #Idols Quotes

“We should be investing where the public returns are greatest - that is in innovation.”
“Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.”
“When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD players and TVs and all these things to produce distractions for them, and I think it would be hard to find the time to create something. I think that's really changing something about adolescence.”
“Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation.”
“I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.
“I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.”
“Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.”
“Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of religious powers or a corporate expression of societal values.”

Source : Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.103, Oxford University Press, USA

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