#tribute

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ↗

— Marthe Troly-Curtin

#misattributed-john-lennon #procrastination #time #time

Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

#unverifiable #love

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#admitted #ambition #another #becomes #consist

I'm going to go in and play, because the most important thing is playing on the field and being able to contribute. I really am ready. ↗

— Freddy Adu

#am #because #being #contribute #field

It's frustrating at times when you think you've earned a chance to play on the field and you're over there sitting on the bench. That's not the kind of player I am. I'm the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute every minute of every game. ↗

— Freddy Adu

#bench #chance #contribute #earned #every

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought. ↗

— Aristotle

#also #be grateful #before #contributed #developing

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#conflict #continent #contributed #deal #east

If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels. ↗

— Bart Gordon

#country #dependency #dispense #distribute #foreign

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#bit #cuban #even #feel #great

I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy. ↗

— Bob Lilly

#attribute #career #crippled #entire #even