Boris Sidis Quotes
If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.
Boris Sidis
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
Carl Honore
Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
Maajid Nawaz
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
Daniel Clowes
Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
Garth Brooks
I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.
Harmony Korine
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
Carl Schurz
Che rilevare un che Fortuna ruoteTalora al fondo, e consolar l'afflitto,Mai non fu biasmo, ma gloria sovente.
Ludovico Ariosto
Prudence and justice tell me that in electricity and steam there is more love for man than in chastity and abstinence from meat.
Anton Chekhov
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Francis Bacon
I'm a wild lady. Not.
Kristin Chenoweth
Fitness is not about being better than someone else... It's about being better than you used to be.
Khloe Kardashian
My autism is a very mild form. It was diagnosed at the age of 25, partly because it wasn't diagnosable as a teenager (this is Asperger's syndrome, specifically). But there were certainly traits within that condition, within the autism spectrum in general, especially at the high functioning end, that I think are best looked at as pluses.
Daniel Tammet
I was always into classical music and opera because I played the piano as I went through school and was very interested in Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals and stuff like that. That changed into heavy metal at around the age of 14 or 13, and I dropped the piano and started to play the guitar.
Kristian Nairn
The people, the culture... there's so much magic in Colombia, so I feel like being a kid, being able to have that, being able to also call Colombia my home, it was such an important part of my introduction as an artist, too, because it's such a big part of my life as a human being.
Kali Uchis
The most unfair things that could have happened in a society fell upon a blind man. This is something that no one can accept or explain away with any excuse. Everyone will ask: 'Do we actually have to exist in a society like this?'
Ai Weiwei
'Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.'
Dave Eggers
Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
Bernard Crick
If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.
Boris Sidis
