"Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice."

-- Antoine Rivarol

#Practice Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Theory Quotes

“Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.”
“People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everybody listened to everybody else's tales. Before long it became clear that some of the still illiterate storytellers told more and better tales than others, that is, they could make more people believe their lies.”
“The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.”
“Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.”
“If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.”

Source : "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.
“I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.”

Source : "Fictional character: Gene Kranz". "Apollo 13", www.imdb.com. 1995.
“My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it.”

Source : Forrest Griffin, Erich Krauss (2009). “Got Fight?: The 50 Zen Principles of Hand-to-Face Combat”, p.19, Harper Collins
“It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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