"Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs."

-- Anton Chekhov

#Two Quotes #Judging Quotes #First Impression Quotes

“We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe; that's a good estimate with well-defined error bars and with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you.”

Source : "Katie Melua's bad science" by Simon Singh, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2005.
“Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.”

Source : Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.281, Transaction Publishers
“No mistakes, I'd promised myself that i would make no mistakes, no matter how minimal they seemed. if i held her hand, i would only want more - another insignificant touch, another move closer to her. i could feel that. a new kind of desire was growing in me, working to override my self-control. no mistakes.”
“The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth,”
“Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.”
“History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.41, Univ of California Press
“Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of loved beings who are no longer alive. But there is another real death which each of us undergoes every day, as each day we draw nearer to our own death. Even when the person photographed is still living, that moment when she or he was has forever vanished.”
“Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.”

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