Carlo Rovelli Quotes

I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.

Carlo Rovelli

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• We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Imagination

• I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Risk
  • Failure

• Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Risk
  • Establishment
  • Salad

• I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Imagination

• I worry unnecessarily.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Worry
  • Unnecessarily

• I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Believe
  • Risk
  • Thought

• What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Risk
  • Neighbor

• Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mother

• You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • You
  • Risk
  • Director

• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination
  • Word

• Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Up
  • Time
  • Risk

• Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Time
  • Future
  • Amazing

• Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Action

• I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Teacher

• Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Help

• Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Long
  • Die
  • Religious

• People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • People
  • Career
  • Myself

• Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination of the heart.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Hope

• I think that children that are acting are always pretty savvy anyway because you're conducting yourself around adults a lot of the time, aren't you? But there is this worry now that children just want to be famous.

  

  Ashley Jensen
  • Time
  • Children
  • Pretty

• Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Moving

• Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city’s jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • City

• My dream is to see India as a nation of well-looked-after and respected sportspeople in all fields.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Dream
  • See
  • Nation

• The enjoyment of work - to the extent that you have any - is likely highest in the first hours of the day when you are fresh, not tired, working on the most important things.

  

  Emily Oster
  • Work
  • Important
  • Tired

• I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.

  

  Carlo Rovelli
  • Imagination
  • Risk
  • Worry