"Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth."

--

William Cobbett

#Learning Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth. It's a black box.”
“Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!”
“If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.”
“Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.”
“Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.”
“We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.”
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 12, 2010
“There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.”

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