"If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed."

-- Sparky Anderson

#Choices Quotes #Speed Quotes #Turns Quotes

“Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.”
“I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with their heartfelt and beautifully expressed mathematical arguments are all the results I need.”
“I remember in 37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.”
“We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural development represent a real advance in human sensitivity, or is it chiefly a diversion for elites and a weapon of class exploitation?”

Source : John Blacking (1974). “How Musical is Man?”, p.4, University of Washington Press
“Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.”
“If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.”
“I'm at the point now where I don't really have an agenda. I kind of let things flow, and there's not a narrative. On the set it's usually one or two people, and I'm not trying to choreograph them as I did in the past. I'm really just trying to see what's going on in their minds and in their faces.”
“I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.”

Source : John Bell Hood (1996). “Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies”, p.58, U of Nebraska Press

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