"The #‎ knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go."

-- R.A. Dickey

#Letting Go Quotes #Knuckleballs Quotes #Metaphor Quotes

“I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's a fear that society will collapse if it's not acting. To contrast those actions with other actions is important in making it feel plausible. Maybe we must have the size of the dream meet the size of the threat.”
“Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems like molecules within larger systems like cells, which in turn are nested in systems called organs, organisms, ecosystems. We grew from ancient one-celled ancestors. Nature likes mergers: we contain multitudes of other life forms within us. We stand at the crest of four billion years, bacteria molded into wondrous form, burning with a slow fire and about to take the next step.”

Source : Robert Frenay (2006). “Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things”, p.32, Macmillan
“Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”
“At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'”
“At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.”
“I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.”
“We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.”
“I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.”

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