Michael Dickinson Quotes

If flies are a great model, they're a great model for flies. These animals, you know, they're not like us. We don't fly. We don't have a compound eye. I don't think we process sensory information the same way. The muscles that they use are just incredibly much more sophisticated and interesting than the muscles we use.

Michael Dickinson

• Interesting
• Model
• Process
• Information
• Animals
• Muscles
• Sophisticated
• Flies
• Incredibly
• Compound

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• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Animals

• I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Good
  • Free

• Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Information
  • Trade
  • Sit

• I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Process

• I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Business
  • Model
  • Conduct

• I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Child

• All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I think running a small nonprofit to work on the opioid crisis and bring interesting new businesses to the so-called Rust Belt - all of these things are valuable, if not more valuable, than running for office.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Small

• The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.

  

  Eddy Grant
  • Time
  • Process
  • Take

• Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Process
  • Excellence

• Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

  

  Man Ray
  • Inspiration
  • Information
  • Technique

• I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Value

• My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Interesting

• The interesting thing about me is that I was born poor, and I've lived rich and I've lived poor, and I know how to do both. People think rich is better. I don't know.

  

  Polly Bergen
  • People
  • Interesting

• I think women, we are very interesting. We have a lot to say, and sometimes it's frustrating how all the lead parts are for men.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Men
  • Women
  • Interesting

• We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • World
  • God
  • Interesting

• I share my story to help other people. I know people need someone to be a role model and help them along the way.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • People
  • Help
  • Model

• The hand has the richest articulation of space.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Space
  • Hand
  • Articulation

• When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Different
  • Car
  • Door

• Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Difficult
  • Produce
  • Tasks

• For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • True
  • Reality
  • Lost

• If flies are a great model, they're a great model for flies. These animals, you know, they're not like us. We don't fly. We don't have a compound eye. I don't think we process sensory information the same way. The muscles that they use are just incredibly much more sophisticated and interesting than the muscles we use.

  

  Michael Dickinson
  • Interesting
  • Model
  • Process