Lee Smolin Quotes

I... propose that time and its passage are fundamental and real and the hopes and beliefs about timeless truths and timeless realms are mythology.

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• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Think
  • Idea
  • Text

• I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Help
  • Mission
  • Founders

• The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

  

  Halle Berry
  • You
  • First
  • Step

• The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Relationship
  • Grow
  • Harmony

• It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • True
  • Romantic
  • Pleasure

• I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Up
  • Through
  • Museums

• My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Sports

• I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Thought

• When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Congress
  • Property

• I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Movie
  • Read
  • Maybe

• Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Time
  • God
  • Free

• I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Myself
  • End

• Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Build
  • Reputation
  • Lawyers

• It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Work
  • Business
  • Reality

• If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

  

  Andrea Jung
  • Time

• John McCain may pay hundreds of dollars for his shoes, but we're the ones who will pay for his flip-flops.

  

  Bill Richardson
  • May
  • Shoes

• My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.

  

  Elliott Smith
  • Time
  • Search
  • Girlfriend

• I... propose that time and its passage are fundamental and real and the hopes and beliefs about timeless truths and timeless realms are mythology.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Time
  • Real