Chars Lexington Quotes & Sayings

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know. — Jane Goodall

Confession of effort chafes against the notion that empathy should always rise unbidden, that genuine means the same thing as unwilled, that intentionality is the enemy of love. But I believe in intention and I believe in work. I believe in waking up in the middle of the night and packing our bags and leaving our worst selves for our better ones. — Leslie Jamison

A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough. — E. W. Scripps

When I go into the studio - it [words] has to sound the way I heard it in my head. So that's probably one of the biggest things that separates me when I'm working in the studio - just how I hear certain things. — Kendrick Lamar

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know. — Plotinus

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. — Richard Dawkins

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. — William Pollard

Love is love, and there's not enough love in the world. — Faith Gibson

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer. — Ray Dolby

When enough people agree on something, I'd be an idiot, if I didn't listen. — Harald Zwart

For the rest of his life, the greater the chaos, the calmer Rockefeller would become, particularly when others around him were either panicked or mad with greed. He would make much of his fortune during these market fluctuations - because he could see while others could not. This insight lives on today in Warren Buffet's famous adage to "be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." Rockefeller, like all great investors, could resist impulse in favor of cold, hard common sense. — Ryan Holiday

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. — Robert Frost

The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level. — Carl Jung