"Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Thinking Quotes #Power Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Passion pursues; love surrenders.”
“I don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.”
“Read as much as you write. Go out and meet other writers. Look for stories in everything around you - music, movies, family, strangers, your bus ride to work, and of course the streets. Also - keep moving forward, keep creating new things. Leave evidence of yourself in this world. Imagine what your legacy could be and try to create it.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.”

Source : "On male domination" by Pierre Bourdieu, mondediplo.com. October 1998.
“The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.”
“Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt to synthesize apparent opposites. However, citizens of the New Age often forget that, when they involve science, analogies should be tempered by experiment and calculation.”
“A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see”

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