"The greatest gift is a passion for reading."

-- Elizabeth Hardwick

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Passion Quotes

“In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.”
“I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!”
“We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.”
“The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest”
“Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.”
“What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far on Earth belongs to the same tree. We share genes with mushrooms and oak trees and fish and bacteria that live in volcanic vents and so on that it's all the same life descended from a common origin. What we want is a second tree of life. We want alien life, alien not necessarily in the sense of having come from space, but alien in the sense of belonging to a different tree altogether. That is what we're looking for, "life 2.0."”
“I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.”
“Insist on yourself. Never imitate.”

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