"Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it."

“There will be a few people who will resent the fact you have to be online to play a single-player game. But it'll change.”

“Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical composition. That is what these forms are for. Nature is a marvellous chaos, and it is our job and our duty to bring order into that chaos and - to perfect it.”

“It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.”

“The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

“It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.”

“It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound.... Birds, as a group, did descend from dinosaurs and ... all 8,600 species of birds living today carry some inheritance from their reptilian ancestors.”

“I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.”

Source : "Paddy Considine: 'Making this film felt like an exorcism'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.

“People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yourself enough to get up!”