"What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened."

-- Vivian Gornick

#Writing Quotes #What Matters Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which not. But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited.”
“I think for a while now people have been scared to be out of TMT the commonly used acronym for technology-media-telecom stocks, which have tended to rise in tandem recently and the feeling has really been you have to be there...but now we're getting a dose of reality.”
“While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”
“It's happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there's an extra zero, or several, on the amount that you owe.”
“Let us protect with love all that God has given us!”
“I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.”
“One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.”
“The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.”

Source : FaceBook post by Joshua Bell from Apr 15, 2015

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