"In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed, and about the carelessness and inclination toward bias that must be avoided is far more useful than all the rules and warnings of theoretical logic."

-- Santiago Ramon y Cajal

#Motivation Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Views Quotes

“Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2011). “First Kill”, p.60, Penguin
“To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.”
“A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.”
“My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.”

Source : "Hale Irwin honored with Nicholson Award, talks golf and football". Interview, www.denverpost.com. May 8, 2012.
“I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.”

Source : "Should young people take risks while volunteering?" by Sally Higham, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2013.
“And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.”

Source : Hu Shih (2013). “English Writings of Hu Shih: Chinese Philosophy and Intellectual History”, p.141, Springer Science & Business Media
“Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.”
“We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.”

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