"So: if you buy the notion that reality consists of the things in your freeze-frame mental image right now, and if you agree that your now is no more valid than the now of someone located far away in space who can move freely, then reality encompasses all of the events in spacetime."

-- Brian Greene

#Moving Quotes #Reality Quotes #Space Quotes

“You know, even in the economic downturn in Alberta, there are restaurants in Calgary, and even in Canmore up the mountain, that cannot open for lunch because they cannot find staff. And they cannot find staff because there's nowhere for those people to live. And so safe and decent housing, market housing, subsidized housing, the whole bit, we really, really need to have our heads on straight on this, and we don't yet.”
“Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.”

Source : Henry Mintzberg (2009). “Managers Not Mbas: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development: Easyread Edition”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com
“But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.”
“Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.”
“The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.”
“It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'”
“Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage.”
“I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.113, Macmillan

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