Xiaowen Liu Quotes & Sayings

It is not true that faith, as a Victorian poet said, "puts out the eye of light"; without it there would be no light at all, not even the "dry light" of the sciences themselves: nothing venture, nothing have. — A.E. Taylor

I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and talked to myself in front of the mirror in the vain hope of confirming who I was. My delirium was so great that during a student demonstration complete with rocks and bottles, I had to make an enormous effort not to lead it as I held up a sign that would sanctify my truth: I am mad with love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. — Edward Abbey

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life
its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness
conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. — Susan Sontag

Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught a long time ago, company performance often results more from variations in systems than from the individuals doing the work. — Jeffrey Pfeffer

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated. — Bill Rodgers

If you can't do it, don't do it. — Karl Pilkington

We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large 'no-take' marine protected areas. — Daniel Pauly

Christlike love is a gift of the Spirit. — Robert J. Whetten

The results will be very good. — Jacob Zuma