Quotes
Authors
Richard Lewontin

"The general public doesn't know and probably doesn't care about punctuated equilibria nor indeed should they, or the greenhouse effect on some other planet - they barely have the ability to cope with the greenhouse effect on their own planet. So I think you have to distinguish between the broad visibility of a scientist when he or she is speaking to a general public and trying to address general issues and the continued position that a scientist may have into the history of a particular subject."

-- Richard Lewontin

#Thinking Quotes #Issues Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.”
“With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my books to be an absorbing reading experience, an authentic piece of literature. The worst thing that can happen is for a book to have a chilling effect on the reader, to have a kid pick it up and look at a bunch of footnotes and think, No, I'm not going to read this, it's too intimidating.”
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”

Source : Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.67, A&C Black
“Why wait for a call when you have a command?”
“The real treasure, that which we all seek, is never very far; there is no real need to seek it in a distant place, for it lies buried within our own hearts. And yet, there is this strange and persistent fact thatÂ it isÂ only after a journey in a distant region, in a new land, that the way to that treasure becomes clear.”
“Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“When your arms are bigger than your head, something is wrong.”
“You can't expect someone who has been in prison his whole entire life to turn around and become a sweet guy who writes books and walks his dog and has a normal life.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org

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