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mistake thinking vanity
I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. David Remnick
mistake mean wish
When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.' David Hockney
mistake perspective world
The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.
mistake imagination philosopher
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. David Hume
mistake nice mind
The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of mind, which sees not on all sides, than to commit mistakes in this particular.
mistake liars mean
There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.
mistake bottles actors
My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do. David Duchovny
mistake literature firsts
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. David Brin
mistake humble outsiders
If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what mistake am I making?' before assuming 100% of the experts are wrong.
simple small-numbers fundamentals
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry. David Hilbert
simple thinking ipads
Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I'd always be thinking a little bit ahead. That's especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.
simple long long-time
It takes a long time to make it simple.
simple shocked
I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.
simple simplicity interest
Anything simple always interests me.
simple order religion
The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence.
simple order words-of-wisdom
We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and that it is the sign of an unskilled naturalist to have recourse to a different quality in order to explain every different operation.
simple praise epithet
What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.
simple empowering answers
Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life. Bear Grylls
silence ifs
If you like music you like silence actually.
silence
Silence hides nothing. Words conceal. August Strindberg
silence
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid? Audre Lorde
silence
Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
silence protect-you protected
I was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
silence saint silent
Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent. Blaise Pascal
silence saint silent
Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.
silence suffering males
I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you." "Oh, stop it, Molly. Alexandra Adornetto
silence steps easy
From politics it was an easy step to silence. Jane Austen