"Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills."

-- Alex Steffen

#Powerful Quotes #Home Quotes #Practice Quotes

“Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.”

Source : "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 192, 1998.
“When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You want your coach's blessing.”
“There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.”
“If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday tomorrow, go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!”
“People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.”

Source : Jonathan Mayhew (1764). “Remarks on an Anonymous Tract, Entitled An Answer to Dr. Mayhew's Observations on the Charter and Conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: Being a Second Defence of the Said Observations. By Jonathan Mayhew, D.D. Pastor of the West-Church in Boston”, p.62
“Winners don't just learn the fundamentals, they master them. You have to monitor your fundamentals constantly because the only thing that changes will be your attention to them.”
“Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?”

Source : "The Question Mark Inside". Documentary, 2009.

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