"Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language."

-- Thomas Kuhn

#Home Quotes #Past Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.”
“Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.”
“That's the worst of doctors. They are so keen about the body, but they don't study the soul at all.”

Source : Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.296, tredition
“Making music has been connected to one of my greatest heartaches, because my own music has never quite connected with audiences. But it was this heartache that pushed me to explore other artistic avenues, like writing and filmmaking, and I ultimately feel most at home in a multidisciplinary environment.”
“The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.”

Source : Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 8, 2011.
“Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.”

Source : "Where Have All the Graveyards Gone? The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors" by Adam Hochschild, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.
“You cannot fail. You can only get results.”
“Good manners is part of taqwa and you cannot have taqwa without good manners”

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