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“I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.”
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“He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.”
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“Well as for Ian Rush, he's perfectly fit, apart, that is, from his physical fitness”
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“I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'”
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“The egotist is next door to a fanatic.”
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“Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.”
Source : "Seals, evolution, and the real 'missing link'" by Kenneth R Miller, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2009.
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“The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performanceâ€: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.”
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“He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned, either he could hoist it on his back and lug it along or he could walk away from it. Anonymity was the thing he loved most about the city, being a part of it and apart from it at the same time.”
Source : James Sallis (2012). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.20, Oldcastle Books