"There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then what happens? What comes next?" is critically important."

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Source : Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 26, 2015.

Chuck Hagel

#Thinking Quotes #Important Quotes #Asking Quotes

“I've been working on a graphic about carbon emissions. It's an incredibly simple graphic - a bunch of blocks and a table below it - but it's taken me three weeks to design. For some reason it just wasn't working. Then finally I realized there was a number present, which I was rendering in each version, that wasn't necessary for the understanding of the piece. This figure was getting in the way and distracting from the main flow of the narrative. As soon as I pulled that graphic out of the design, it sprang into focus. Suddenly it worked.”
“The sexually insatiable woman is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes of boys, and the fears of men.”
“To me, speed is really about convenience.”
“If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong. -Matrim Cauthon”
“I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in its petals, And every leaf was lovely with the rain.”

Source : Ernest Rhys (1918). “The Leaf Burners: And Other Poems”
“Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship.”
“Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.”
“He looks trapped, helpless and furious, and thatâ€™s a feeling I know too well. Know how much it hurts. Know how it holds you down, how every day there are a thousand little ways to see there is nothing you can do to change who or what you are.”

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