Fpturlock Zoom Quotes & Sayings

What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web ... — David Abram

As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world. — Tom Chatfield

Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe for stagnation. — James Surowiecki

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. — Sherwood Anderson

Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren't often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc. — Jill Lepore

If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever. — Andrew Niccol

Archaeological discoveries made in Egypt and in the Near East in the past hundred years have opened our eyes to a spiritual and cultural heritage undreamed of by earlier generations. — Samuel Noah Kramer

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass — Mark Twain

But if there were some version of luminol, the stuff they use to find blood at crime scenes, to detect the presence of grief, half the people we pass on the street would light up like Christmas trees. I — Darcey Bell

I have found that by looking at what is rewarded and punished, and why, universally - i.e., in nature as well as in humanity - I have been able to learn more about what is "good" and "bad" than by listening to most people's views about good and bad. — Ray Dalio

If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating. — Paulo Coelho

You don't try to do more than you should. — Karl Malone