"When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it does give me time to think through problems. Some solutions are obvious, but they are only obvious when you are relaxed enough to find them."

-- Wolfgang Ketterle

#Running Quotes #Weekend Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.”
“Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.”
“The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.”
“Goals are to be set clear without frills. Do not be deterred and take reality as it is, not as it should be.”
“Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe thatâ€™s been to Kelso three times, and theyâ€™ve never been farther than Ford in their lives.â€ Kate peered absently into the farm pond, and clucked again. â€œThoughtless creatures. Theyâ€™ve forgotten the fish.”
“You have to believe in yourself before anybody else believes in you.”
“Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.”
“It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.”

Source : "Essays on the Art of Theater". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1954.

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