Joshua Foer Quotes
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.Joshua Foer
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
C. V. Raman -
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
Vaclav Havel -
I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
Kanye West -
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
Ieyasu Tokugawa -
We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
Ralph Merkle -
I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.
Nadia Comaneci
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Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.
Bebe Rexha -
It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.
Narendra Modi -
Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
Xenophanes -
The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
Adam Clarke -
Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people, her power to inspire and direct their enthusiasms and energies, her chance for molding their conceptions of life, were amazing and unparalleled by any other force.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
Edmund White -
I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
W. Somerset Maugham -
That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!
Calvin Coolidge -
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-the mother.
Claudette Colbert -
Freedom is not a natural disposition, but God's precious gift to man. Those in whom viciousness becomes second-nature, those in whom brutality is linked with haughtiness, forfeit their ability and therefore their right to receive that gift. Hardening of the heart is the suspension of freedom.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
Nelsan Ellis
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Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.
Thomas Eakins -
There's not one person in this state who believes they are going to have a job in my administration... There's not one person who I've promised anything to.
Matt Bevin -
We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables.
Eric Martinot -
I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.
Charles Soule -
I know I need to exercise. For some people, exercise is like breathing; for others, like me, it takes effort. Exercising is what I need for my metabolism and for a better sense of well-being.
Al Roker -
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.
Joshua Foer