George Spencer-Brown Quotes

To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.

George Spencer-Brown

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• Marriage has made me safer.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Made

• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Law

• Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • War
  • Cold

• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Done
  • America

• Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • World
  • Me
  • Loved

• I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme; it's common sense. We need to secure the border.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Day
  • Trump

• I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Better
  • Television

• I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Me
  • Actor
  • Breathe

• I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Doctor
  • Witch

• We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Die
  • Car

• If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Want
  • Risk

• When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Age

• The first time I ever went out of the country, it was to London. I was with the choir from my college, and we were touring around all these different churches. I loved it so much I tried to find a way to stay there.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Period

• Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Will
  • Result
  • Judged

• I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Should
  • Days
  • Fat

• Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Wish
  • Care
  • Better

• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Know

• Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Everything
  • Create

• I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort of artistic medium I think, of our time, is film. I really feel that. I mean to me, there's nothing else out there, where I can sort of suspend disbelief for two hours.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Great
  • Movies

• To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.

  

  George Spencer-Brown
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Needs