"Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard."

-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

#Discovery Quotes #Woods Quotes #Violet Quotes

“I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.”
“I'm also big on journaling. You can write in the sand or on a watermelon or whatever suits you, but the key is to get it out of your head and out of your heart and down your arms and into something, a keyboard or piece of paper.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.”
“Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. Its just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.”
“And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.”

Source : William Kent Krueger (2014). “Ordinary Grace: A Novel”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
“If we develop in-depth knowledge it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.”
“We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.”
“I just hugged the man who murdered my son.”

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