"Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me."

-- David Nicholls

#Anxiety Quotes

“I have to birth those ideas. Those designs have to come into the world. It's not only my goal, it's my reason for being on the planet. If I'm not doing them, then I'm not fulfilling my calling. It's very instinctual for me.”

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“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”

Source : "The Blind Who Would Lead". "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1983.
“If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.”
“Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.”
“Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It can only be something intangible, not involving haulage, which is at the same time more valuable. There is something like that: Knowledge.”
“Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.”
“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.”
“What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.”

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