Shabana Azmi Quotes & Sayings

Maybe hope and sadness can coexist, she thought. That felt like a significant idea. Maybe Cam could hope without denying that huge part of herself that needed to be sad. She didn't have to sacrifice one for the other. Maybe all people were both hopeful and sad in every moment of their lives. — Wendy Wunder

Nature normally hates power laws. In ordinary systems all quantities follow bell curves, and correlations decay rapidly, obeying exponential laws. But all that changes if the system is forced to undergo a phase transition. Then power laws emerge-nature's unmistakable sign that chaos is departing in favor of order. The theory of phase transitions told us loud and clear that the road from disorder to order is maintained by the powerful forces of self-organization and is paved by power laws. It told us that power laws are not just another way of characterizing a system's behavior. They are the patent signatures of self-organization in complex systems. — Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me. — Bear Grylls

I haven't even read everything I wrote. — Karl Barth

Difficulty becomes familiar, at least, if no less difficult. — Sarah Manguso

I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why — Jennifer Lawrence

I think the Sierra Club is the environmental group that has the best chance of really accomplishing things. It's well known, and it actually gets down to doing the dirty work of protecting the environment. — Tom Scholz