"Oh, I usually don't know a whole lot about a subject when I begin; the process itself teaches me a lot as I go along. Usually I know enough about one narrow area of the subject to start myself going, and then everything - including a lot more research - follows from that."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Jim Shepard

#Research Quotes #Enough Quotes #Process Quotes

“There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.”
“Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.”
“If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesnt get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.”
“When we talk about something like student loans, what we should be talking about is the fact that every American wants their kids to do better than we have done. If we can get that, the other thing we'd really like is for our kids to be able to come home and raise their kids in the community where we raised them. What unites all of us, no matter where you live in the country, is we want our family to be safe, we want the next generation in our family to be more successful than us, and we would like our family to be close together.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“There are a host of ethnic minorities in China but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and assimilated as Han. There is a belief that the Han enjoy a superior and far more advanced culture.”

Source : "Identity runs deep in China" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2009.
“Once I decide I want to do something, I just work really hard and I do it, and I just know it's going to work. I think really positively.”

Source : "Holly Madison talks family, career and casting decisions as she ends ‘Peepshow’ run". Interview with John Katsilometes, lasvegassun.com. October 23, 2012.
“And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the 'Lord of Phosphorus,' and Lucifer, or 'Light-Bearer,' is in us: it is our Mind”

Source : H. P. Blavatsky (2011). “The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy”, p.513, Cambridge University Press
“The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.”

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