"Doubt is a necessary precondition tomeaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end."

-- Donald Barthelme

#Doubt Quotes #Action Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are.”
“Write and people will come to read. Write and people will heed to your words and share them with others. Not all may relate, but wait, and those that were meant to see it eventually will find it, for truth waits to be found. It searches for no one.”
“Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.”
“The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtapositionÂ—as making a spark requires two things struck together.”
“Non-Newtonian calculi... have considerable potential as alternative approaches to traditional problems.”

Source : "Non-Newtonian Calculus", Middlesex Math Notes, 1977.
“And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other and look out at the vastness and complexity and mystery of the universe and be able to say, â€œWow, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.”
“The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.”
“I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love them.”

Source : "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview with James West and Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.

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