"Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and so with wooden ploughs we continue to draw lonely furrows, most successfully when we strike sand."

-- Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier

#Lonely Quotes #Historical Quotes #Research Quotes

“Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wrong.”
“And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.”
“I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.”
“A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.”
“Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.”
“You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here”

Source : Song: It's Here, Album: Love Moves
“I kind of take Hilary as a role model because she started out at about the same age, she hadn't done much before starting her series, and I haven't either.”
“It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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