"What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still very vague about the exact meaning of words like "understand," "think," and indeed the word "meaning" itself."

-- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I'm in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set.”

Source : "Next Factor Q&A: 'Think like a man' Star Terrence J" by Jade Leach, www.mtv.com. April 23, 2012.
“The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.”
“It was important for me to show that Beirut and Lebanon were once the pearl of the Middle East. Beirut was once called the Paris of the Middle East and to have that feeling of a destroyed place that once was beautiful and glamorous and visually impressive was important. I think it's even sadder to get the feeling that this country, and indeed the whole Middle East, could have been a major force in the world if people would get together and forget about destruction, death and wars. But unfortunately, it's not happening yet.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“But what began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was no blueprint and there was no budget for destructive measures. They were taken step by step, one step at a time. Thus came about not so much a plan being carried out, but an incredible meeting of minds, a consensus - mind reading by a far-flung bureaucracy.”
“I always think shooting dance is a sort of test of a filmmaker.”

Source : "Joel and Ethan Coen on how they turned Hollywood history into the hysterical ‘Hail, Caesar!’". Interview with Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. August 2, 2016.
“I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.”
“Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-been.”
“The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.”

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