"I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive."

-- Octavia Butler

#Ambition Quotes #Years Quotes #Oil Quotes

“For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.”
“I don't believe in false memories, like I don't believe in false songs.”
“Women have no government.”
“The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.”
“You don’t have to beg God; you just have to act upon His Word.”
“We found the future, like birds fly into windows.”
“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”
“But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center of his existence. Thus we are cleverest where knowledge matters least....”

Source : Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.192, Courier Corporation

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