"The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience."

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Demetri Martin

#Thinking Quotes #Feedback Quotes #Improvisation Quotes

“We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.”
“I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history .”
“The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other channel than a scientific society, which naturally hesitates to admit into its printed records matters of uncertain value. Perhaps one may go further and say that a young author who believes himself capable of great things would usually do well to secure the favourable recognition of the scientific world by work whose scope is limited and whose value is easily judged, before embarking upon higher flights.”

Source : "Introduction to Waterston's Memoir 'On the physics of media that are composed of free and perfectly elastic molecules in a state of motion'". Philosophical Transactions, p. 1-5, rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org. January 1, 1892.
“It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.”
“Of all heroes , Spinoza was Einstein 's greatest. No one expressed more strongly then he a belief in the harmony , the beauty , and most of all the ultimate comprehensibility of nature .”
“On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.”

Source : "The Great Indian Novel". Book by Shashi Tharoor, August 24, 1989.
“Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.”

Source : Anne Perry (2004). “Shoulder the Sky: A Novel”, p.235, Ballantine Books
“The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.”

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