Jason Botterill Quotes & Sayings

Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they're taught in academia, and (2) doesn't mix in the hard-to-measure stuff that may be more important. That is a mistake I've tried all my life to avoid, and I have no regrets for having done that. — Charlie Munger

Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution. — Dov Davidoff

Even the biggest blaze, though, has to start somewhere, with a tiny spark, or arsonists would be out of business. — A.P.

The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind. — Frederick Lenz

Who the fuck are you?" I said, practically screaming at him. I was not going to take being set up lying down. — Darynda Jones

I learned a lot of details about 1920s clothes, cars, kitchen appliances, and food. I had a character eating peanut butter in one scene until I learned that peanut butter wasn't commercially packaged and sold until 1924. — Laura Moriarty

You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another. What the laws of physics say. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

All that is base in the masses is temporary, no doubt serving only to prevent evolution (that of the elite, as well) from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming 'reality.' — Piet Mondrian

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing — Elizabeth I

The business of return migration is a phenomenon that historians have indeed begun to look at, but it is rather an ignored and underplayed story and one that we need to know more about. — David Levering Lewis

It is impossible to succeed without failing. — Brian Tracy

I think it's a great honor to win an Oscar but I think if you aim to be rewarded in your life you'll get nowhere. I think that the biggest reward is the work itself and what you get out of it and the connections you make with other people. — Natalie Portman

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from ... — Malcolm X