"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."

-- Nathalie Sarraute

#Mind Quotes #Looks Quotes #Copying Quotes

“That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!”

Source : Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.58, Simon and Schuster
“Software engineering economics.”

Source : Mingshu Li, Barry Boehm, Leon J. Osterweil (2005). “Unifying the Software Process Spectrum: International Software Process Workshop, SPW 2005, Beijing, China, May 25-27, 2005 Revised Selected Papers”, p.66, Springer Science & Business Media
“the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.”
“Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days canâ€™t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.”
“Even the worst neighborhood of Heaven will be better than the best neighborhood of the fanciest town on Earth!”
“I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seemes careless of having anything to do withâ€”they hardly dare talk in my company for fear I should mention them in my writings and I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in musing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose.”
“Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great hollowness left where something lovely and solid used to be. ...There is something fundamentally insatiable about being human, as though we come into the world with a kind of built-in tension between the experience of being hungry, which is a condition of striving and yearning, and the experience of being fed, which may offer temporary satisfaction but always gives way to new strivings, new yearnings.”
“As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the brief window of opportunity we have to teach them simple lessons that can lead to a lifetime of good health.”

Source : "Childhood Obesity: Fighting for the Future Health of America’s Youth" by Richard Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2010.

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