"I think we are worlds compressed into human form."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Form Quotes

“If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.”
“That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.”

Source : "Our media must give Muslims the chance to debate with each other" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2006.
“I, as a storyteller, was asking questions no one in science had apparently asked. What happens in a nest of tyrannosaurs? They're precocial, meaning when they hatch, they're ready to feed and move about. My questions are "Hmm, if there's a nest of tyrannosaurs, and there's three siblings that survive, would they try to eat each other?”

Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.
“Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.”
“Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you â€” the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.”

Source : "How to Frame Yourself: A Framing Memo for Occupy Wall Street" by George Lakoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.
“General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.”
“I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.”

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