#isi

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#deals #down #exciting #going #i

I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something back in return. Otherwise, we are constantly being disappointed." She moved her turquoise bracelet back and forth on her wrist. "So I had two sons, John and Richard, because I wanted to, not because I thought they would rescue me in old age. I got out of all social organizations and clubs in my fifties so I could spend time with my grandchildren, not because they would give something back to Jack and me later on, but because that was what I wanted to do--and I have loved doing it. Believe me, these have been selfish decisions. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#life-decisions #age

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#better #decisions #environmental #faced #genome

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities. ↗

— William Griffith Wilson

#alcoholism #carry #condition #contingent #cured

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family. ↗

— Francois Gautier

#except #family #france #going #i

If you make compelling television, they will come. ↗

— Henry Winkler

#compelling #make #television #will #you

The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television. ↗

— Eric Burns

#reading #television #travel #age

It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces. ↗

— Edward Witten

#big change #change #elementary #fuzziness #i

The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality. ↗

— Khaleda Zia

#communal #division #harmony #nation #power

I have no problem with television as a genre. ↗

— James Purefoy

#i #no problem #problem #television