"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance."

-- Charles Lindbergh

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“First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.”

Source : Fitzhugh Dodson (1977). “The You That Could Be”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
“I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.”
“I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.”
“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.”
“On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific distinction, and it features conspicuously both in attacking behaviour, when the birds face each other and grip beaks, and also in courtship, when food is passed from the beak of the male to the beak of the female. Hence though the beak differences are primarily correlated with differences in food, secondarily they serve as specific recognition marks, and the birds have evolved behaviour patterns to this end.”

Source : David Lack (1947). “Darwin's Finches”, p.54, CUP Archive
“And he nipped them in the bud, right at the end”
“The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.”
“One thing is certain: The power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do something, you can. This is a fact. When you clearly envision a victorious outcome, engrave it in your heart and are firmly convinced that you will attain it, your brain makes every effort to realize the mental image you have created. And then, through your unceasing efforts, that victory is finally made a reality.”

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