"Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Age Quotes #Demand Quotes #Revision Quotes

“Maybe home isn't a place. Maybe it's a feeling you have inside of you, being around the people who matter to you”

Source : Justin Somper (2010). “Vampirates: Black Heart”, p.176, Simon and Schuster
“My mother used to say, "Tell your brain you want that piece of information or you want to solve this problem, and then just walk away from it. Just forget about it. Just do something else, completely distract yourself, and you'll see, it's like a computer. Eventually, it will deliver it up." And I find that's really true.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“I give myself the green light to move forward, and to joyously embrace the new.”
“The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies.”
“The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.”

Source : "How Geena Davis became a champion for women on screen" by Alexandra Spring, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2017.
“It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.”
“Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.”
“Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.”

Source : "Mathematics, Magic and Mystery". Book by Martin Gardner (p. 9), 1956.

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