“You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.” TryingYearsLongI CanFeelingsBodyNaturalCareersLateFeel GoodGet BetterBest Year Author:David Ortiz
“Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.” IfsShouldHumansMayTodayActionNaturalHuman BeingsIssuesHappenedLateClimateClimate ChangeAddressesToo LateBehaviourHuman BehaviourDecisive Action Author:Ban Ki-moon
“Well, my father Kingsley Amis was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it was good that I began when I was young and bold and foolish, otherwise I'd have become too self-conscious and aware of the weight of not having written anything yet.” ThinkingWritingWellsSelfYoungFatherNaturalWrittenLateConsciousWeightFoolishTeensSelf Conscious Author:Martin Amis
“Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of the myth of natural harmony all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds (all structures well designed for a definite purpose in this case). It is, indeed, the vision of foolish Dr. Pangloss, so vividly satirized by Voltaire in Candide the world is not necessarily good, but it is the best we could possibly have.” WorldWellsLongHas BeensPurposeNaturalVisionCasesCenturyLateLong TimeHarmonyStructureVariousMythFoolishVersionsDrsDefiniteNineteenth CenturyGuiseHyperCandide Book:The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that I had written a book on reason and natural law, Stigler started to ridicule reason, going so far as to say that there is as much reason in a monkey's antics as in any human act. At that point I asked him whether he was trying to tell me something about how he wrote his books; he gave me a blank stare and stormed out of the room.” TryingHumansBookReasonLawNaturalRoomsWrittenLateHearingStaringRecallsBlankMonkeysSpainRidiculeConferencesIncidentsInvolvingNatural LawAnticsBlank Stares Author:Frank Van Dun
“When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.” ThinkingFeltNaturalForeverHugeLateConsequenceResourcesUsersNatural Resources Author:Bill Ford
“I have been so electrically occupied of late that I feel as if hungry for a little chemistry: but then the conviction crosses my mind that these things hang together under one law & that the more haste we make onwards each in his own path the sooner we shall arrive, and meet each other, at that state of knowledge of natural causes from which all varieties of effects may be understood & enjoyed.” IfsFeelsMindMayLittlesHas BeensStatesTogetherLawCausesNaturalPathEffectsLateUnderstoodCrossesConvictionHungryVarietyEnjoyedChemistryHaste Author:Michael Faraday
“In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.” NeedsMomentsNaturalCompassionPracticeLetting GoLateHatredToo LateNever Too LateRest In PeacePeace LoveLove And ForgivenessLearn To Let Go Author:Jack Kornfield