"I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that."

-- Buzz Bissinger

#Writing Quotes #Purple Quotes #Littles Quotes

“"The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart."”
“Whose life is it, anyway?”
“What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.”
“Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane.”

Source : "Chess: the new rook'n'roll?" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2004.
“There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting set of ideas that is the math of the world, and is curiously different and surprisingly engaging. Our task is to introduce this second version to today's students, get them excited about math, and prepare them for the future.”

Source : Jo Boaler (2015). “What's Math Got to Do with It?: How Teachers and Parents Can Transform Mathematics Learning and Inspire Success”, p.5, Penguin
“I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.”
“About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and older metaphysical frameworks in the 17th and 18th centuries. The other 30% consists of one-off essays or researches into other intriguing contemporary topics such as visual experience, aesthetics, social justice issues, and the epistemology of moral knowledge.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.”

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