"As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying."

-- David M. Brown

#Thinking Quotes #Feet Quotes #Guy Quotes

“The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.”
“Art is theftâ€) and Igor Stravinsky (â€œLesser artists borrow, great artists stealâ€), Iâ€™ve always stolen from the people I admire â€“ not plagiarized, mind you, but stolen bits of ideas and stylistic influences. If you steal widely enough, after all, your models are inevitably changed and the result is in the end completely yours. Kleon cites AndrÃ© Gide to this point, in a quotation I love: â€œEverything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
“More than a billion people have downloaded Google Earth. More than a billion people use Google Maps. They are very comfortable tools for people to explore the planet in high resolution.”
“It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.”
“Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”
“To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business.”
“But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.”

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