Zavatta Cirque Quotes & Sayings

my life is just waiting for you to get started. — Nina LaCour

Checklists seem to provide protection against such failures. They remind us of the minimum necessary steps and make them explicit. They not only offer the possibility of verification but also instill a kind of discipline of higher performance. — Atul Gawande

... the association of two, or more, apparently alien elements on a plane alien to both is the most potent ignition of poetry. — Comte De Lautreamont

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it. — Nate Silver

We visit the Launch Control building, where on one wall of the seventies-style lobby are hung the mission patches of every human spaceflight that has ever been launched from here, 149 to date. Beneath each mission patch is a small plaque showing the launch and landing dates. Two of them - Challenger's STS-51L and Columbia's STS-107 - are missing landing dates, because both of these missions ended in disasters that destroyed the orbiters and killed their crews. The blank spaces on the wall where those landing dates should have been are discolored from the touch of people's hands. This would be unremarkable if this place were a tourist attraction, or regularly open to the public. But with the rare exception of Family Days, this building is open only to people who work here. In other words, it's launch controllers, managers, and engineers who have been touching these empty spaces with their hands, on their way to and from doing their jobs. After — Margaret Lazarus Dean

I don't care," he answered, "whether I make the most of my strength or not; I don't know whether I have any strength, but if I have I dare say it will find some way of exerting itself. I will live as I like living, not as other people would like me to live; thanks to my aunt and you I can afford the luxury of a quiet unobtrusive life of self-indulgence," said — Samuel Butler

Next time you're afraid to share ideas, remember someone once said in a meeting, 'Let's make a film with a tornado full of sharks. — Unknown

I'm not going to say a damn word about it being tough; I'm having the best time of my life! — Kurt Cobain

Everyone's connected but no one is connecting. — Armin Van Buuren

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these. — Athanasius

A very different kind of place, was Blake's answer. He slammed his door shut, and Daemon about snapped his head off. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study. — Dichen Lachman

If getting dumped by a spouse for a "younger model" burned women, then losing the love of your life to a wealthier lover burned men. — Morgan Parker

It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person. — David Levithan