"To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one's essential position [in life]."

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Sven Birkerts

#Blow Quotes #Self Quotes #Focus Quotes

“THE BIGGEST TEST FOR PARENTS IS NOT HOW THEY PARENT, BUT HOW THEY RESPOND TO DISORDER AND UNPREDICTABILITY”
“Practice writing and speaking about what you do.”
“I'm attracted to a lot of hot guys. If Chris Hemsworth were here, I'd light him up like a firecracker with how fast I'd jump on him.”
“If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.”
“I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 20, 2004.
“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”

Source : "The Rules According to Dee Dee Myers". Interview With Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, content.time.com. February 29, 2008.
“Only know you've been high when you're feeling low...”

Source : Song: Let Her Go
“Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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