"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."

-- Ashley Montagu

#Success Quotes #Work Quotes #Differences Quotes

“TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're discouraged from thinking that, except for a few new products, there might be a better way of doing things.”
“Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?”
“I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus; it does not occupy itself with the probable truth; moreover it has the same method in every country.”
“I pride myself on doing character-driven movies and, when my movies have worked, it's been because of the right casting and the right character, and it just clicks.”
“If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.”
“It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.”
“I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing that you can do because of the ways that the real and the unreal weave together to create something that feels more true than anything.”
“A person who can, within a year, solve x2 - 92y2 = 1 is a mathematician.”

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