"Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art"

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Source : "The Auteur vs. the Committee" by Randall Steoss, www.nytimes.com. July 23, 2011.

John Gruber

#Art Quotes #Decision Quotes #Making Decisions Quotes

“We came from many roots, and we have many branches.”
“As we strive to align our attitudes and actions with righteousness, then the Holy Ghost becomes for us today what the Liahona was for Lehi and his family in their day. The very factors that caused the Liahona to work for Lehi will likewise invite the Holy Ghost into our lives. And the very factors that caused the Liahona not to work anciently will likewise cause us to withdraw ourselves from the Holy Ghost today.”
“If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.”

Source : Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.6, Penguin
“People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.”
“Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.”
“In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.”

Source : Ben Bova (1998). “Twice Seven: Stories”, Eos
“want to get to the substance of the book ["Thank You for Being Late"], but it is so closely connected to this presidential election. And you also wrote a series of columns during the campaign, very tough on Donald Trump. You called him a disgusting human being and now you're calling the election a moral 9/11 only 9/11 was done to us from the outside. We did this to ourselves.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

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