"I think it is the general rule that the originator of a new idea is not the most suitable person to develop it, because his fears of something going wrong are really too strong... At age 69."

-- Paul Dirac

#Strong Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it.”
“Let me extend that generosity to myself.”
“It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.”

Source : Darrell Huff (1993). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company
“The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is slightly easier, because there's less money and fewer people involved. You just let a book of poems trickle out in the world, and it finds its own people. Novels are much harder, and you don't think you should have to do some of the things you're made to do.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I was an angry young man, as you say. I was a punk rocker, blaming the government, corporations, and anything external, like my family, for my anger. I was pretty miserable, festering in my own mind. I began to think, there has to be a different way, there has to be another way out.”
“Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.”
“Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that I don`t want to feel as though I`m being taken advantage of... The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn`t go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure... I`m an eccentric actor, and there`s a lot of us around.”
“I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.”

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