Impedia Quotes & Sayings

And learning, for Musk, is simply the process of "downloading data and algorithms into your brain."3 Among his many frustrations with formal classroom learning is the "ridiculously slow download speed" of sitting in a classroom while a teacher explains something, and to this day, most of what he knows he's learned through reading. — Tim Urban

But a major factor in the discontent of Americans came with the decree of April 6, 1830, when the Mexican government in essence banned further American immigration into Texas and tried to control slavery. (For an account of how Texans opposed this decree at Fort Anahuac, see Texas History Features on the Texas Almanac website.) Austin protested that the prohibition against American immigration would not stop the flow of Anglos into Texas; it would stop only stable, prosperous Americans from coming. Austin's predictions were fulfilled. Illegal immigrants continued to come. By 1836, the estimated number of people in Texas had reached 35,000. — Elizabeth Cruce Alvarez

Sometimes when you're struggling to see kindness in the world, you need to be the creator of it to remind yourself it does exist. — Truth Devour

John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the survival of its community. I think of my family stories - Mother's in particular - how much I need them now, how much I will need them later. It has been said when an individual dies, whole worlds die with them. The same could be said of each passing whale. — Terry Tempest Williams

The US condones violence in El Salvador. — Dan Quayle

Do not allow the negative of the past to mask your sight. — Asa Don Brown

Move with a purpose dude. — Joe Teti

There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route and sell travel writing through making people laugh. It's a very difficult group to take. The line between comedy and mockery is sometimes a bit thin. — John Gimlette

No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with life. — Ben Jeffery

Knowing who you really are and dressing the part
with an air of amused recklessness
is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people. — Simon Doonan

Fear of the unknown.
They are afraid of new ideas.
They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on ... if something is new, I reject it immediately because it's frightening to me. What they do instead is just stay with the familiar.
You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious. — Wayne W. Dyer

How easy it is to be unknown! — Sophia Lee

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. — William Bennett

Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died. — Sam Kean

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman