Dewine Covid Quotes & Sayings

All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on. — William James

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness — Leo Tolstoy

You need good thinkers around you. Without them, you will go broke. — Adolf Dassler

Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it. — Jennie Finch

The publication of the Darwin and Wallace papers in 1858, and still more that of the 'Origin' in 1859, had the effect upon them of the flash of light, which to a man who has lost himself in a dark night, suddenly reveals a road which, whether it takes him straight home or not, certainly goes his way. That which we were looking for, and could not find, was a hypothesis respecting the origin of known organic forms, which assumed the operation of no causes but such as could be proved to be actually at work. We wanted, not to pin our faith to that or any other speculation, but to get hold of clear and definite conceptions which could be brought face to face with facts and have their validity tested. The 'Origin' provided us with the working hypothesis we sought. — Thomas Henry Huxley

Nature and books and (later) mathematics saved me from complete despondency. — Bertrand Russell

TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing. — Marshall McLuhan

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. — Sigmund Freud

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain. — Robert G. Ingersoll

In other words, to see if through these cultural phenomena a new Middle Ages is to take shape, a time of secular mystics, more inclined to monastic withdrawal than to civic participation. We should see how much, as antidote or as antistrophe, the old techniques of reason may apply, the arts of the Trivium, logic, dialectic, rhetoric. As we suspect that anyone who goes on stubbornly practicing them will be accused of impiety. — Umberto Eco

I don't want to pitch forever. — Mariano Rivera

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness. — Pablo Picasso

Peace and solidarity in Europe is not a law of nature. It requires caring, effort and perseverance — Helle Thorning-Schmidt