Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes
What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.
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When you really start figuring things out as a quarterback, you realize you don't have to be perfect every time, but you do have to be quick and decisive.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.
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It's those moments when everything is on the line, and someone needs to show up in a big moment. I prepare my mind and I prepare my body to be ready for those moments. And I think it's just what I do. I live for those moments.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
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The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's now on in places outside of America.
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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.
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The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.
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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
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What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.
