"People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas."

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Source : Margaret Millar (2016). “A Stranger in My Grave”, p.116, Soho Press

Margaret Millar

#Data Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.”
“"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"”
“What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.”
“There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“Over half the people in the United States wear corrective lenses, and almost all of them are capable of seeing much more clearly - if they would only experiment with changing their ideas about vision.”

Source : Jacob Liberman (2011). “Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight”, p.24, Harmony
“Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early communities in Texas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.”
“Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.”

Source : Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”
“Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.”

Source : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.356

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