"I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand."

-- Elizabeth Strout

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Hands Quotes

“First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in the world today than in his own lifetime from sustainability in terms of the environment to income inequality.”
“History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.”
“Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.”
“I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.”
“When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.”

Source : "John Von Neumann, 1903-1957". Book edited by John C. Oxtoby, Billy J. Pettis and G. B. Price, 1958.
“It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of the oldest and least desirable attributes of work in manufacturing industry.”

Source : Peter Dicken (1998). “Global Shift: Transforming the World Economy”, SAGE Publications Limited
“What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.”
“Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men [to thy charity]. For their race brings not harm upon thee in any wise, when thou fearest it from thine own race.”

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