"The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything."

-- Henry Hazlitt

#Memories Quotes #Reading Quotes #Practice Quotes

“It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.”
“I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak.”
“I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. If I wanted to learn somebody's stuff, like with Clapton, when I wanted to learn how he was getting some of his sounds - which were real neat - I learned how to make the sounds with my mouth and then copied that with my guitar.”
“Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.”
“People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.”
“For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I could find. Same exact thing every night, night after night. Total silence. Absolutely nothing. That's why I chose it. I know for a fact nothing bad can happen to me in here.”

Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.15, Vintage
“Evolution is a tinkerer.”

Source : "No Engineer Would Have Designed the Human Brain the Way It Is". bigthink.com.
“When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs. By force, brutal force, he eliminated all the other scripts. One script became the official script. All the others were banned. And those who used other scripts were punished severely. And then the meanings of all the characters, over the centuries, had to be kept uniform as a part of the political apparatus. So from the very beginning the written word was a powerful political tool.”

Source : "Ha Jin, The Art of Fiction No. 202". Interview with Sarah Fay, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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