"What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working."

-- Victor Kiam

#Beach Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Eight Quotes

“The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance.”
“It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth prostituting yourself for that.”
“Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.”
“I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.”
“We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.”

Source : Lewis Madison Terman (1947). “Genetic Studies of Genius ...: The gifted child grows up; twenty-five years' follow-up of a superior group, by L. M. Terman and M. H. Oden”
“My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in '96. I get chills thinking about it. It's my favorite time here - call me crazy. I'm from Canada, and it's very cold up there.”
“The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory”
“I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.”

Source : "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". Play by Jane Wagner, 1985.

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