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“If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.”

Source: Advice for a Young Investigator

“Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.”

Thinking Life Reason Faces Stars Simple Answers Impossible Failing Perspective Complexes Mindset Contrary Staring Meaning Of Life Dirt Lenses Lungs Thoughts On Life Telescopes Specks

Author:Jason Calacanis

“God help the troubadour who tries to be a star. The more that you try to find success, the more that you will fail.”

Trying Helping Success Stars Failing God Help Troubadours

Author:Phil Ochs

“Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.”

Ideas Heaven Stars Views Failing Source Valuable Magnificent Sublime Splendid Grandeur Magnificence

Book:A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“But interestingly Star City's technology is all 1970s - still. In fact, it's alarming because you think, "You're not going to send someone up into space in something that old, are you?" But it works and it always has worked and it doesn't fail and it's incredibly reliable.”

Thinking Stills Facts Stars Space Cities Technology Failing

Author:Danny Boyle

“If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.”

Ifs Winning Stars Sun Failing Size Being The Best Sweepers

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I think her comments - Hillary's Clinton comments just don't get the same attention that Trump's do. For example, she lied to a Gold Star mother. She lied to pre - Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, who - who was killed at Benghazi, I believe, because of her incompetence, her incompetence in failing to secure that mission.”

Thinking Believe Mother I Believe Stars Attention Failing Example Trump Gold Clinton Missions Secure Comment Lied Incompetence Sean Benghazi He Lied

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“When Donald Trump - star of 'Celebrity Apprentice', the man who brought you Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, and Trump "University" very likely fraud and fail; and Twitter-hands extraordinaire - is setting up his bobblehead on the desk of the Oval Office and shredding through nuclear codes, you only have yourself to blame.”

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Author:Chrissy Teigen