"One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia."

-- Lynn Abbey

#Passion Quotes #Historical Quotes #Trivia Quotes

“To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole.”

Source : Morphological astronomy, The Observatory, Vol. 68, p. 121-143, 1948.
“Trust nothing but your own experience.”

Source : "David Bowie: What I've Learned". www.esquire.com. January 11, 2016.
“Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.”
“My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.”
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.”

Source : Washington Irving (2014). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.181, Penguin
“Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be.”
“If you are rigorous in your own R&D in whatever your area is, you do your own testing, and you really stress-test the thing that you do, I think that gives you a tremendous amount of inner fortitude when you come up against the monolith.”

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