"Any creator owes a debt to past creation."

-- Lukas Foss

#Past Quotes #Debt Quotes #Creation Quotes

“The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.”
“I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.”

Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 208), 1991.
“There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.”
“No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.”
“We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.”
“To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.”
“Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain, he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found them, with the help of Our Lord.”
“I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.”

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