"So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students."

-- Daniel Nathans

#School Quotes #Choices Quotes #Lucky Quotes

“I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches.”
“Montreal, this wonderful townâ€¦ Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.”
“You can't go home again”
“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”
“Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor - or you may get hurt, which is major. Instead of years of meditation, you have this activity that forces you to relax and monitor your breathing and tread that line between living and dying. When you climb, you always are confronted with the edge. Hey, if it was just like climbing a ladder, we all would have quit a long time ago.”
“I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.”
“When you are hunger for God, He will fill you.”
“But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.”

Source : Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.300, Univ of California Press

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