"History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance."

-- Donald Creighton

#Character Quotes #History Quotes #Encounters Quotes

“I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.”
“[Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should be noted that the null hypothesis is never proved or established, but is possibly disproved, in the course of experimentation. Every experiment may be said to exist only in order to give the facts a chance of disproving the null hypothesis.”

Source : "The Design of Experiments". Book by Ronald Fisher, 1935.
“If you're surrounded by good people and you're really honest with yourself, you'll be delivered.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.”
“You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.”
“I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.”
“God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.”
“It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are still primarily art-world phenomena, others that appeal to much broader audiences. The Burning Man festival is a case in point--an event featuring performance that is itself a performance, which partakes simultaneously of frontier mythology, a counter-cultural impulse, and popular cultural visibility.”

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