Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

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• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

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• I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.

  

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• We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

  

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• You have to separate the negative into two categories - half of it is sensible, constructive things that has made us better. But half of the negative online is negative for the sake of being negative, and it's important for us to remember it's okay they don't like us, and sometimes there's no point in engaging in that.

  

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• The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg
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  • Important