"There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees."

“If you read about a tree, and there is a description, you have to grow that tree in your mind. So that's an active way of looking at media, whereas a movie or a TV will be passive, because they are showing you the tree. In the same way, when somebody sings a song for you, those words get so much in the foreground, that even if you take a minor key of music and then put like happy lyrics to it and people think it's a happy song. So, in a song, you are told what to feel, whereas, in an instrumental music, you get as much out of it as you are willing to put into it.”

“If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.”

Source : "Simply Paying Attention With Alec Soth". Interview with Alexander Strecker, www.lensculture.com.

“People sometimes are under the impression that finding their property corners should cost as much as changing their oil or blowing out their sprinklers. What they don't realize is that land surveyors are required to stand behind their work for the rest of their lives.”

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

“Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.”

“If President Young wants my wives I will give them to him without a grumble, and he can take them whenever he likes.”

“We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of elementary symmetries.”

“A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.”

“I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.”

Source : Sharon M. Draper (2010). “Out of My Mind”, p.174, Simon and Schuster