“I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.” PeopleInterestingLimitsAbsolutesParanormalPushingInventingWerewolfMenaceFaerieHomicidal Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“It’s a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best—not a percent better or a percent worse than that.” TryingInterestingPercentAbsolutesVery InterestingInteresting Things Author:Kai Greene
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.” LifeInspirationalInterestingBeautyStandardsAbsolutesPursuitTrue BeautyStandards Of Beauty Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that which is not typical. "To illustrate a principle ," says Bagehot , "you must exaggerate much and you must omit much." As to the quantity of absolute truth in a thought : it seems to me the more comprehensive and unobjectionable a thought becomes, the more clumsy and unexciting it gets. I like half-truths of a certain kind they are interesting and they stimulate.” ThinkingKindProblemSeemsCertainInterestingHalfPrinciplesAbsolutesDrawingQuantityTypicalComprehensiveClumsyCaricaturesAbsolute TruthHalf Truth Author:Eric Hoffer
“I just tend to think about everyday things for my onstage act. Actually you know what I like to talk about just the absolute most - the more mundane the subject matter, the more interesting it is to me.” ThinkingKnowsMatterInterestingSubjectsAbsolutesEverydayMundaneSubject MatterEveryday Things Author:Brian Regan
“Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.” InterestingMysteryAbsolutesVulnerable Author:Jeanne Moreau
“The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.” WayNeedsMindPastInterestingDangerousAbsolutesConnectedPreservesAgencyPredictableUnpredictabilityFallibilityImprobability Author:Lewis Thomas
“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.” IfsThinkingI CanFactsMightScienceOrderOpportunityAnswersInterestingKnowingDoubtProgressDoorsAbsolutesAlternativesUncertaintyNot KnowingUncertainEnthusiasticAbsolute TruthUnsureScientific TruthProgress In ScienceUncertainty And Doubt Author:Richard P. Feynman
“In this office we do not have problems. We have interesting developments. We have challenges. If we absolute must we may, on occasion, have a slight difficulty. But under no circumstances whatsoever do we have problems.” IfsMayProblemChallengesInterestingDevelopmentCircumstancesOfficeDifficultyAbsolutesOccasions Author:Karen Miller
“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.” IfsNeedsActionValuesCausesInterestingHistoryPlansWrittenEventsKingsAchievementAbsolutesHarmonyHistoricalPlanningMotiveAppropriateMarchBuriedHistorianOblivionProphetic Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding