"We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory."

-- Matthieu Ricard

#Trying Quotes #World Quotes #Temporary Quotes

“I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.”

Source : Interview with David Plotz, www.slate.com. October 25, 2010.
“I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.”

Source : "Friday Night Lights: Jesse Plemons Has Home-Field Advantage". Interview with Marnie Hanel, www.vanityfair.com. April 2009.
“From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.”
“My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no scientific test one can postulate that would definitively prove its existence in another entity. We assume that other biological human persons, at least those who are at least acting conscious, are indeed conscious. But this too is an assumption, and this shared human consensus breaks down when we go beyond human experience (e.g., the debate on animal consciousness, and by extension animal rights).”
“Follow your heart and make it your decision.”
“The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat into a nontechnological Eden which never existed...It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desireable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.”
“After working for years, in the end days, people realize its peace for what they have worked for all those years by loosing the peace.”

Source : Twitter post from May 31, 2013
“So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.”

Source : Dirk Bogarde (2012). “A Particular Friendship”, p.23, A&C Black

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