"To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is â€“ in other words, not a thing, but a think."

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Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “The Gate of Angels”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Penelope Fitzgerald

#Thinking Quotes #Persons Quotes

“The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.”

Source : Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”
“There will be a moment of silence while our prints do the talking.”
“I'm not boring to be around. Something will always happen.”
“But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.”

Source : Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.300, Univ of California Press
“Imagination is powerful. Imagination is healing. All you need is the courage to visualize what should be, and then give yourself to its creation. The result may not be what you expected, but it will be right.”
“I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.”
“You never go into a season thinking you're going to strike out 200 guys or that you would have the most double-digit strikeout games in the big leagues, or anything like that. You just try to win, and the outing becomes what the outing becomes.”

Source : "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.
“It is surely important that the differences between coma, deep sleep, being under anesthesia, on the one hand, and being alert on the other, all involve changes in the brain.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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