"The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest."

-- William James

#Block Quotes #Thoughtful Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The footpath down to the well is healed.”
“I swam my brains out.”
“If you want to sell the most records, duet with me. If you need someone to come in and bless your record sales, I'm your man.”
“Hitler could not tolerate too much social contact.”
“The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.”
“Yes, [I spent] two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had been thrown out of their academic jobs because they taught that there was a possibility of life coming from something other than Darwinism, who thought that possibly random selection and mutations didn't account for the universe, didn't account for gravity, didn't account for why nobody had ever seen an individual species evolve -- no one's ever seen an individual species evolve!”
“As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.”
“My secret to success is that I've always loved good music and people.”

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