"During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology."

-- Charles Darwin

#Determination Quotes #Book Quotes #Years Quotes

“At Mach 20, we can fly from New York to Long Beach in 11 minutes and 20 seconds.”
“For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough to share the love they've found.”
“Positive minds full of faith and hope produce positive lives.”
“Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.”

Source : "Every Piece has a Backstory". Art21 Interview, art21.org. 2008.
“Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.”

Source : FaceBook post by Miriam Toews from Jul 07, 2011
“How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.”
“Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.”
“It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.”

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