"I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you're in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for having done so"

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Optimistic Quotes #Bad Ass Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46)”
“By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.”
“The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.”

Source : Nicholas Roerich (1990). “Heart of Asia: Memoirs from the Himalayas”, p.1, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
“Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.”
“I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?”
“If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.”

Source : "The Wondrous Dr. J". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.
“Before computers were everywhere I used record books, the old-fashioned way. I loved to cram, and I still love to cram, anything I write with extra facts, stuff I picked up. At the same time, especially in this day and age, you've got to make it sound like, or read like, you've not just been Googling because that's not fair, that's not right!”
“Conforming is not cool.”

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