"I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively â€“ for the first time in a long, long while â€“ by slipping my notebook into my belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is your watch, and once youâ€™ve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when itâ€™s time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Notebook Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Long Quotes

“I know I wouldn't be here, and all of us wouldn't be here, without certain sacrifices and certain stands that people have made -- not just women, but men stepping up and supporting what we do and how we do it.”
“My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.”
“The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.”

Source : "Simple downloads, complex change" by Michael Coren, www.cnn.com. August 23, 2004.
“One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.”
“I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.”

Source : Walter Kohn, Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger (2003). “Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators”, p.295, Springer Science & Business Media
“I never had a bad night in my life, but I've had a few bad mornings.”
“The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage.”

Source : "Planning as Learning". hbr.org. March 1988.
“It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.”

Source : "Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance" by Max Born, (p. 2), 1964.

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