Becoming A Mere Numerical Item Quotes & Sayings

Always look up! Every time I step out-side, that's the first thing I do. Ask your-self, "what star is that?", grab a star chart and try to figure it out. That is basically how I started. Learn your planets and learn how to distinguish them from the stars. Study star charts even during the day and that night, go and see if you can find them. You may surprise yourself! — Will Young

The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed. — Tony Blair

There's something beautifully soothing about a fact - even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Like time-management, change-management, doesn't really exist antmore ... Today's most valuable mindset must include the SWIFTA framework the be a change-driver. — Tony Dovale

Before even Court Grip, I just wanted to be a part of a brand that I felt that listened to the athlete and really catered to the athlete, and gave us what we were looking for. — Dwyane Wade

This person was standing under Lavery's portrait of Lady Walpole-Wilson, painted at the time of her marriage, in a white dress and blue sash, a picture he was examining with the air of one trying to fill in the seconds before introductions begin to take place, rather than on account of a deep interest in art. — Anthony Powell

We are African in origin and American in birth. — Timothy Thomas Fortune

If I knew exactly what I know now and had it to do over, I'd be a switch hitter. No telling what I could have done. — Hank Aaron

Man in his upended street must know he is becoming a mere numerical item of convenience; on the way to being a thing. His inherent instinct for love and beauty is not only becoming suspect but, in spite of all intent, useless to society. He sees the human creature atrophy as he sees poverty of imagination in much "modern art," so-called. But it was Walt Whitman himself who raised the perpendicular hand to declare: "It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary." This is what is now coming forth in our architecture as in our life. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm always getting forgotten," said the grizzled doctor sadly. "I must have a very inconspicuous personality. — Agatha Christie

I'm a little worried ... Brave New World seems a bit more real everyday ... — Solange Nicole

He suffered greatly from being shut up among all these people whose stupidity and absurdities wounded him all the more cruelly since, being ignorant of his love, incapable, had they known of it, of taking any interest, or of doing more than smile at it as at some childish joke, or deplore it as an act of insanity, they made it appear to him in the aspect of a subjective state which existed for himself alone, whose reality there was nothing external to confirm; he suffered overwhelmingly, to the point at which even the sound of the instruments made him want to cry, from having to prolong his exile in this place to which Odette would never come, in which no one, nothing was aware of her existence, from which she was entirely absent. — Marcel Proust

Haters are confused admirers who can't understand why everybody else likes you — Paulo Coelho