Spraying Lacquer Quotes & Sayings

I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths ... and then reason up from there. — Elon Musk

It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it. — Kate Bornstein

You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them. — Robert Schumann

You will be a great entrepreneur if you operate with a real sincere wanting to serve. — Russell Simmons

I'm constantly trying to mine the DNA of John Constantine and stay true to that character in the comic books. — Matt Ryan

We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into bondage to our religious traditions ... We must no longer use the Bible as the Pharisees used the Torah when they gave it absolute and final status. Christian biblicism is no different from Jewish legalism. It is the old way of the letter, not the new way of the Spirit. — Robert D. Brinsmead

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I watched the Olympics as a kid. It would be fun to try to win a medal. If I could swap Olympic gold for a US PGA Championship? I'd take the Major every time. — Luke Donald

could possibly be. — James Spada

But soon I forget all they are being and doing and saying, and stare out the window. — Teri Terry

Ultimately, the challenges of the 21st century can't be met without collective action. Agreement will almost never be easy, and results won't always come quickly. But I am committed to respecting different points of view, and to forging a consensus instead of dictating our terms ... that's how we will advance and uphold our ideals. — Barack Obama

if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can't afford to see no doctors? — Rebecca Skloot

I like 'em dirty. And you're as dirty as they come. Soon, you'll be just as dirty on the inside, — K. Webster

Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects. — Gloria Steinem