"If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!"

-- Tom Stoppard

#World Quotes #Fields Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”
“Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time â€” of all time.”
“I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New York and saw some of my graffiti. He was impressed and asked if I sold canvases. I really had not made any canvases of my graffiti work yet, but told him I could make one for him. He then commissioned me to make ten paintings and put on my first art show. Between the sold out show and the cops chasing after me it created a lot of media and I've been doing really well since then.”

Source : Source: www.askmen.com
“Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry. [...] To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery.”

Source : George Pólya (1945). “How to Solve it: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method”
“I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because theyâ€™re counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but theyâ€™ve never been born again.”
“You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.”

Source : Larry King, Bill Gilbert (2007). “How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: The Secrets of Good Communication”, p.28, Three Rivers Press
“The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.”
“Thereâ€™s always tomorrow, until thereâ€™s not.”

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