#curate

All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes. ↗

— Mark Doty

#encouraging #life

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#accurate #best #common #common sense #fallacy

But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head. ↗

— Jay Asher

#self-awareness #reason

Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you--just a tad--off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt, but you're able to pull it back. Yet no matter how hard you try to drive straight, something keeps jerking you to the side. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much--too tiring--and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy...or whatever...to happen. ↗

— Jay Asher

#reason

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#compliment #effective #lame #more #nothing

All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs. ↗

— John Walters

#accurate information #inaccurate #information #many #messages

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#doubt #increases #know #knowledge #little

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#afar #battle #battles #few #fight

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#accurate #admirable #been #child #elevation

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#business #know #know yourself #knowledge #men