"The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself."

-- Sven Birkerts

#Book Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Creating your own reality is the richest gift you received at birth.”
“I have struggled to be taken seriously as a female athlete. I have struggled to find my worth outside of winning. I have struggled to accept parts of myself. Now I'm recognizing the beauty in those parts as well as beauty in the times when things didn't go my way.”
“You have to control, focus and temper the strength. Uncontrolled strength is usually an explosion. Sometimes on the other hand let it explode and pick up the pieces.”
“Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.”

Source : Roger Penrose (1994). “Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA
“You put the movie out and then it's up to you guys to go oh that was good.”

Source : Source: www.slashfilm.com
“You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV.”
“I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'”
“A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice or partition of a much larger space in which mental processing takes place.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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