"It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory."

-- Arthur Schnitzler

#Memories Quotes #Writing Quotes #Easy Quotes

“I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Obviously the more transparency we have as auditors, the more we can get, but the main goal is to understand important characteristics about a black box algorithm without necessarily having to understand every single granular detail of the algorithm.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is the font of love. She merely mocks lovers with mental images. Try as they might, lovers cannot satisfy themselves by gazing nor by rubbing against one another because the madness of love will always return; hence Lucretius' prescription to flee the mental images, that is, to ward off what feeds love, turning the mind elsewhere.”
“You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself -- your life, your soul. And you better give the audience everything you can -- physically, emotionally, musically. Then maybe they'll accept you and give you a standing ovation at the end.”
“Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart.”
“The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.”
“Creating festivals made a major impact on society in general because you couldn't draw large crowds indoors. At Newport we were soon drawing crowds of 10,000 and there weren't halls that could hold that many people.”

You may also like:

Franz Kafka
Writer
Hermann Bahr
Writer
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Novelist
Joseph Roth
Journalist
Rainer Maria Rilke
Poet
Robert Musil
Writer
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist
Stanley Kubrick
Film director
Stefan Zweig
Novelist