"It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it."

-- Arthur Lydiard

#Discipline Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Matter Quotes

“At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after question at the reporters: Who moved over from Commerce to CRP with Stans? What about Mitchell's secretary? Why won't anybody say when Liddy went to the White House or who worked with him there? Mitchell and Stans both ran the budget committee, right? What does that tell you? Then Sussman would puff on his pipe, a satisfied grin on his face.”
“I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.”

Source : "Happy Endings' Adam Pally, on playing TV's least stereotypical gay guy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2012.
“Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars, and the rarified matter in space should all be profoundly influenced by measurements from balloons, rockets, probes and satellites. ... In a new adventure of discovery no one can foretell what will be found, and it is probably safe to predict that the most important new discovery that will be made with flying telescopes will be quite unexpected and unforeseen. (1961)”

Source : Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 17, No. 5, p. 191, 194, May 1961.
“It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.”
“She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.”
“Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they are in paying attention to the shlumpy diversity of defensible values that people actually have, and then trying to figure out how these might be negotiated in the life of an agent or community.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye”
“An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.”

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