Thornbill Bird Quotes & Sayings

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Deep in his heart, he wondered if he was after all worse than this man or the next. He knew that he could sophisticate himself finally into saying that his own weakness was just the result of circumstances and environment; that often when he raged at himself as an egotist something would whisper ingratiatingly: No. Genius! — F Scott Fitzgerald

As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time to travel from your sensory organs along the multiple neuronal pathways in your body to your brain, and they take time to be processed and transformed into objects, scenes, and complex situations. So, strictly speaking, what you are experiencing as the present moment is actually the past. — Thomas Metzinger

Floods, fires, earthquakes, disease, starvation, betrayal, isolation, murder.
What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. — Rick Yancey

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you. — Jayson Blair

Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world. — Swami Vivekananda

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different. — Bill Parcells

'Friends' was a true ensemble. There really was no star of the show. — Matt LeBlanc

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed. — Elizabeth Kenny

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early. — Mordecai Richler