"Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."

-- Malcolm Gladwell

#Block Quotes #Skills Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“There is no last word in research, and that includes climate research. It's never the truth that scientists offer, but only our best possible approximation of reality. But that often gets forgotten in the way the public perceives and describes our work.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ***** you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same.”
“English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.”
“In most cases, obviously, soldiers fought because a government drafted them and gave them a rifle. At every point too, we see the role of nationalistic sentiment, commercial rivalries, and simple greed. But can we ever separate out such motives from the religious? Was that not also true of the medieval crusades?”
“I don't think I was talking specifically about Steve Jobs. It was just a general philosophy about one person grows up and he's kind of managing companies and every day he's working making sure this is in place and that's in place.”
“It isn't that easy to live according to intuition, yet, it's so totally cool once we can get beyond the other voices and hear our intuition.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.”
“Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.”

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