"I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking."

-- Dean Smith

#Basketball Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Don't be afraid to ask people 'why,' 'what if.' Don't be afraid to attack your career. Get in the game, don't stay on the sidelines.”
“The trade of chemist (fortified, in my case, by the experience of Auschwitz), teaches you to overcome, indeed to ignore, certain revulsions that are neither necessary or congenital: matter is matter, neither noble nor vile, infinitely transformable, and its proximate origin is of no importance whatsoever. Nitrogen is nitrogen, it passes miraculously from the air into plants, from these into animals, and from animals into us; when its function in our body is exhausted, we eliminate it, but it still remains nitrogen, aseptic, innocent.”
“My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject...”
“She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.”

Source : "Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel". Book by Jeffery Deaver, 2009.
“All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.”
“The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair because their dreams didn't come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true. A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.”
“It's past time to go when you start asking yourself if it's time to go.”
“If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”

Source : Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.209, Algonquin Books

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