"Often continuity is visible only in retrospect."

-- Mary Catherine Bateson

#Perspective Quotes #Retrospect Quotes #Continuity Quotes

“Art indeed is long, but life is short.”

Source : Andrew Marvell, Nigel Smith (2007). “The Poems of Andrew Marvell”, p.29, Pearson Education
“The issue of motherhood is no longer salient. In fact, the very first female bomber for Hamas posed in her last will and testament video with her two kids.”
“One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.”
“If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago. It is as though her lightness pulls her toward heaven, but the extra gravity around her keeps her earthbound.”
“We are tomorrow's past.”

Source : Mary Webb (2013). “Precious Bane”, p.10, Hachette UK
“If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?”
“Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.”

Source : Victoria J. Theodore, Scott Joplin, Stanford University. Dept. of Music (1990). “The ragtime solo piano works of Scott Joplin: an analysis and performing edition of three pieces”
“The government invented the Internet.”

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