"When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world."

-- Tim O'Brien

#Attention Quotes #World Quotes #Pay Quotes

“The simplest science book is over my head.”

Source : James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf
“Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.”
“A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.”
“Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.”
“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”
“Just the idea that someone is married and they've got a kid, and he reports for work one morning and his boss says, "You're wife is a spy. Shoot her." In the real story, he just went back and did it, which would have been a short film. Therefore, I had to spend some time exploring what you would do.”
“I am a woodlander, I have sap in my veins.”

Source : Roger Deakin (2009). “Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!”

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