"The most common user action on a Web site is to flee."

-- Edward Tufte

#Action Quotes #Common Quotes #Site Quotes

“As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.”
“I'm not one for a lot of media attention.”
“Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know. It's just the first real weekend of summer, three-day weekend and so forth, barbecues, what have you. That's why I think education is important. I'm really glad my dad drilled into me these things that he had lived through and it helped me relate to him better and understand the things he thought were important and why he was raising me the way he was.”
“Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.”
“Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.”
“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
“To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.”

Source : Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”
“It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.”

Source : Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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