"All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice."

-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#Agency Quotes #Self Quotes #Practice Quotes

“The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown.”
“I like making books but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. Perhaps I just try to arrange a bunch of seemingly random drawings into something that makes a vague narrative sense. Sometimes it sort of makes sense, sometimes it doesn't.”

Source : Interview with Jason Polan, believermag.com. October 2011.
“I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.”
“In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The searcher after truth must search with humanity. Ruthless logic is the sign of a limited mind. The truth can only add to the sum of what you know, while a harmless mystery left unexplored often adds to the meaning of life. When a truth is not so important, it is better left as a mystery.”

Source : "My mysterious, inspiring J. J. Abrams Mystery Box" by John Baichtal, www.wired.com. July 14, 2009.
“Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species - and others - alive for very much longer. So the earth has begun its own plan to set things right.”
“I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry-Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."”

Source : The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 91, No. 9, (p. 594), November 1984.
“It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.”
“I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants”

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