Blindsource Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson Is Indignant:that Scotland has so few trees. — Lydia Davis

How we respond to moments of interruption determine who we become and how we spend our lives. But you can never fully live in your calling without going through struggle, fear, and failure. Our decisions in those moments determine the legacy we will live. — Chris Marlow

Wilfred Funk writes in Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories that originally all words were poems, since our language is based, like poems, in metaphor. — Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either. — Brian Eno

Feel the needs of others more than your own. — Haile Selassie

Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There's a human story at every lighthouse; that's the story I want to tell. — Elinor Dewire

The more I think about sex, the better it gets! — Kate Bush

Books, i think, are a different kind of time machine. instead of reminding you of a lost world, they create one for you. more personal, more intimate-unlike movies, say, the world you experience while reading a book has been lived and envisioned entirely from the INSIDE, and its contours are yours alone. — Neil Peart

He discovered that the science he'd once thought of as the whole world of knowledge is only a branch of philosophy, which is far broader and far more general. The questions he had asked about infinite hypotheses hadn't been of interest to science because they weren't scientific questions. Science cannot study scientific method without getting into a bootstrap problem that destroys the validity of its answers. The questions he'd asked were at a higher level than science goes. And so Phaedrus found in philosophy a natural continuation of the question that brought him to science in the first place, What does it all mean? What's the purpose of all this? At — Robert M. Pirsig

If you are stuck only at your culture, you will miss thousands of good things in other cultures; and more importantly, you will miss many truths! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Ansel Adams said, "Twelve significant photographs in one year is a good crop. — Jason Youn