"I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading."

-- John Gould

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sight Quotes

“m doing my best" "no,this isn't your best. We shall recognize your best when it appears”
“No one before you has gotten to me this way.”
“Don't try to rush progress. Remember -- a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Jan 20, 2013
“It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.”
“My attitude was and still is like that of David, who was ashamed that the armies of Israel would tremble before Goliath. Without hesitation he stepped forward with complete confidence in the God who had proven Himself to be faithful (1 Sam 17). For David, the size of the giant was irrelevant.”
“I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people.”
“I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.”

Source : "The Quantum Brain: Theory and Implications". Book by August Stern, p. 7, 1994.
“Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it.”

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