Langewiesche 2014 Quotes & Sayings

The wrong answers are stopping the right ones from emerging. — David Rock

Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded ... We do not attempt to establish or prepare a prognosis and we leave unanswered the question of whether this retardation is curable, or even improveable. We shall limit ourselves to ascertaining the truth in regard to his present mental state. — Alfred Binet

I learned by observation that people who pursued extraordinarily unlikely goals were overly optimistic at best, delusional at worst, and just plain stupid most of the time. — Scott Adams

The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not only the artist's eye and hand perform this dance, so does the eye of the beholder. — Roger Fry

If anything I consider myself an anarchist, — Al Lewis

It's walking the razor's edge of the sacred moment where you don't know, you can't count on, and comfort yourself with any sure hope. All you can know is your allegiance to life and your intention to serve it in this moment that we are given. In that sense, this radical uncertainty liberates your creativity and courage. — Joanna Macy

I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction. — Kate Grenville

Don't just play the number game, but connect the contextual dots and focus on the overall business objectives. — Pearl Zhu

In 2007, people tried to belittle me a little bit and sort of take the credit away from me and my team and what we achieved. — Casey Stoner

From all the graces of my homeland
I chose only your savage heart. — Pablo Neruda

How would he answer the question? No idea. In that moment he realized something inside was very, very dead. — James L. Rubart