"Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. Thatâ€™s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I canâ€™t really explain why."

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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

A. J. Jacobs

#Nice Quotes #Feel Better Quotes #Games Quotes

“We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.”
“People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.”
“After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.”
“I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.”
“My greatest obstacle has to be accepting that the business that I chose to be part of is based on rejection and constantly trying to prove yourself. Letting go of seeing my accent and the way I speak as a limitation. Accepting it as who I am and where I came from.”

Source : "Actor Roselyn Sánchez: On Working in a Business Based on Rejection and Celebrating What Makes her Different". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in.”
“Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial.”
“All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.”

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