"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly."

-- Richard Bach

#Motivational Quotes #Depression Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...”

Source : Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy”, p.107, Penguin UK
“Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.”
“My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.”
“The covetous man is always poor.”
“I was appalled to find that the mathematical notation on which I had been raised failed to fill the needs of the courses I was assigned, and I began work on extensions to notation that might serve. In particular, I adopted the matrix algebra used in my thesis work, the systematic use of matrices and higher-dimensional arrays (almost) learned in a course in Tensor Analysis rashly taken in my third year at Queen's, and (eventually) the notion of Operators in the sense introduced by Heaviside in his treatment of Maxwell's equations.”

Source : "Kenneth E. Iverson with Donald B. McIntyre". Autobiographical sketch from an unfinished work, keiapl.info. (ca. 2004).
“Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.”

Source : 1930 Interview in Berlin, 29 Dec.
“He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.”

Source : François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.9, Gallic Books
“Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you the next fish, is not necessarily the best way to impart your information to the American people. I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.”

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