"In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered."

-- Donald A. Norman

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“It's terrifying. It's so scary, because you get used to being around the crew and being friendly with everyone and then suddenly, at a certain point, everything switches and you're the one standing behind the lights and nobody's going to help you. And that can be really difficult sometimes.”
“Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magesterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nautre's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life.”

Source : Lawrence Millman, Paul Theroux (2000). “Last Places: A Journey in the North”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I like poems that are daggers that sing.”
“As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.”
“When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.”

Source : "Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera". Book by Anne Carson, www.newyorker.com. 2005.
“Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.”
“Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a sense that we can rise above our smallness and divisiveness.”
“We post photos of the Halloween costumes and the mustaches made of cupcake frosting. We don't record the tantrums?and that's as it should be. But we shouldn't mistake that for reality. It's stagecraft.”

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