"Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative."

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Edward Boyden

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm drawn to very large texts that are mammothly popular in different parts of the world but are almost unknown here [the USA]. They're safe bets; if they've been around for 2,000 years, there's a reason. It's often a title or just a phrase within the text that will compel me to adapt it.”
“If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America.”
“we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.330, Broadview Press
“Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.”
“My mistake has too often been that of too much haste. But it is not the people's way to hurry, nor is it God's way either. Hurry means worry, and worry effectually drives the peace of God from the heart.”

Source : "Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser" by Geraldine Taylor, Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., (p. 157), 1998.
“Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It's very simple. You should think of a grill as a burner - it just happens to have grates. You shouldn't be intimidated by it.”
“Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.”

Source : Iain McGilchrist (2009). “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World”, p.401, Yale University Press

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