"I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty."

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Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 208), 1991.

Stanislaw Ulam

#Optimistic Quotes #Writing Quotes #Past Quotes

“Here," she said. "This is for you." "I didn't really get you anything," I sputtered. "I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and--" "Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts.”
“You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.”
“To want is to have a weakness.”
“Man's security comes from within himself.”
“The seed is the fetus, in other words, a true plant with its parts (that is, its leaves, of which there are usually two, its stalk or stem, and its bud) completely fashioned.”
“So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.”
“I didn't know you had a girlfriend, Griggs." Anson Choi feigns surprise. "What's her name?" "I didn't actually catch her name," Griggs continues. "Lily," Raffaela says over her shoulder and this time I give her a sideways look. "Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name," Raffaela calls back again.”
“Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.”

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