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“I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.”

Writing Long Space Plans Benefits Narrative

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“There's no difference between winning and losing. They are the same type of experience. Winning and losing are sensorial, affixed to an ego, blocked in time and space and none of them ultimately make you happy very long”

Inspirational Long Winning Differences Space Buddhism Type Ego Losing Time And Space Make You Happy Blocked Winning And Losing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.”

People Firsts Long Form Reading Stuff Space First Time Iphone Ipads Smartphones Desktop

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.”

People World Mind Believe Looks Long Light Fall Belief Understanding Loses Space Teaching This World Color Fool Don't Believe Insanity Far Away Falsehood Sage Prey Incense

Author:Bodhidharma

“It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.”

Source: The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age

“We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.”

Trying Long Important Purpose Artist Given Stuff Space Evoke

Author:Robert Genn

“Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Writing Wells Long Real Hard Found Space Novel Novelists Things To Do Desperate Symptoms Discouraged Hard Things

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration of life, if you will, is a risk. We've got to be willing to take it.”

Ifs Humans Long Has Beens Space Existence Risk Willing Long Time Essence Curiosity Exploration Humankind Human Existence

Author:Gene Cernan

“As long as we are focusing on the breath we do not feed our mental, emotional, and physical patterns. By returning to the breath again and again we start to dissolve their power. We develop a space between experience and our identification with it, thereby weakening the process that creates habits in the first place.”

Firsts Long Process Space Emotional Habit Breaths Patterns Again And Again Identification Space Between Weakening

Author:Martine Batchelor

“The deadly arms race, and the huge resources it absorbs, have too long overshadowed all else we must do. We must prevent that arms race from spreading to new nations, to new nuclear powers and to the reaches of outer space.”

Long Nations Space Race Huge Arms Resources Nuclear Outer Space Nuclear Power Arms Race

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

“The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the work of an artist so sublimely confident that he doesn't include a single shot simply to keep our attention. He reduces each scene to its essence, and leaves it on screen long enough for us to contemplate it, to inhabit it in our imaginations. Alone among science-fiction movies, “2001'' is not concerned with thrilling us, but with inspiring our awe.”

Source: 33 Movies to Restore Your Faith in Humanity: Ebert's Essentials

“I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Humans Looks Long Earth Universe Term Space Race Planets Human Race Long Term Horizon Inward Planet Earth

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to allow a margin for exchange, and cost of transport, over a considerable distance. Money represents a storage battery when idle, and a generalized mode of the conversion of energy when it is in motion, with a function of equating time and space.”

Long Used Energy Space Cost Function Distance Heavy Conversion Sufficient Load Idle Indispensable Time And Space Margins Transport Circuits Batteries Surplus Storage Heavy Loads

Book:God of the Machine

Source: God of the Machine

“Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.”

Ifs Long Felt Space Rooms Wonder Flower Sitting Garden Japan Boots Blooming Hovering Blooming Flower Dragonflies

Author:Mark Tobey

“[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.”

Long Stills Space Four Manage Riddle Footnotes

Author:Will Cuppy

“It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.”

“It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.”

Want Long Space Research Exciting Missions Physicians Science Research

Author:Laurel Clark

“An actor stands in front of a camera onstage, and he controls time and space for the audience. He tells them how long this will take, where to look, when to look, what to think about it. And good performers should be able to do their part with the sound off.”

Thinking Should Looks Long Able Actors Sound Space Audience Fronts Cameras Performers Time And Space

Author:John Michael Higgins

“As long as space abides and as long as the world abides, so long may I abide, destroying the sufferings of the world.”

World May Long Suffering Space Destroying

Author:Shantideva

“That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.”

People May Children Long Real Play Values Space Cities Sun Quiet Taxes Europe Greed Long Ago Refuge Marvelous Estates Old People Great Cities Contractor Estate Taxes

Book:Fresh from the Laundry

Source: Fresh from the Laundry

“One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.”

Humans Long Problem Term Space Majors Flight Long Term Radiation Requirements Major Problems Deep Space

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.”

Humans Long Opportunity Space Tests Missions Realistic Capability Technological Robots Duration Space Travel Hybrid Asteroids Spacecraft Spaceflight Deep Space

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.”

“I'm a big fan of being able to hold those long shots and use space. I don't know, I think everything's so quick cut these days, as if films are too afraid that the audience is going to get bored instead of relaxing and trusting their work.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Long Use Bigs Able Film Space Audience Cutting Fans Shots These Days Bored Long Shots

Author:Alice Englert

“I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets.”

Believe Humans Long Important Humanity I Believe Term Space Race Planets Survival Human Race Long Term Our Future Disappearance Important Life

Author:Stephen Hawking

“My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.”

Long Space Long Time Tradition Backgrounds Oral Tradition Osmosis

Author:Alan Garner

“I can be absolutely comfortable with an apocalyptic Jesus because he was simply wrong. As long as he's wrong I don't worry about him, and basically everyone else who was announcing in the year 2000 at midnight, the end of the world is coming, I expect them to be wrong. Now if they're right of course, I'll be very uncomfortable that night. But as long as everyone for 2000 years has been wrong about the apocalypse, I can be quite comfortable with it. It's space fiction.”

Ifs World Years Long Has Beens I Can Ends Night Courses Jesus Space Fiction Worry Comfortable Uncomfortable Apocalypse Midnight End Of The World Apocalyptic Announcing

Author:John Dominic Crossan

“I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: 'None'.”

Long Causes Space Answers Results Effort What Is The Meaning

Book:The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)

Source: The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)

“We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.”

Needs Long Space Perceive Heritage Immense Time And Space Stewards

Author:Martin Rees

“I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.”

Thinking Long Would Be Space Race Taken Air Series Glad Congo Whispering Space Race

Author:Audie Murphy

“So long as space remains, So long sentient beings' suffering remain, I will remain, In order to help, in order to serve... I am nothing but a servant to provide to others. So if you provide some happiness, some comfort to others, then your life becomes meaningful. If your life creates problems or suffering to others, then there's no meaning to your existence.”

Ifs Long Helping Problem Suffering Order Space Existence Comfort Remains Meaningful Servant Torture Sentient Beings

Author:Dalai Lama

“By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone else says I should have, is a terrible distraction, a side-tracking that might have lasted my whole life long. By letting myself go, I go places.”

Should Long I Can Whole Body Might Moving Sides Space Rooms Emotional Terrible Letting Go Should Have Whole Life Pursuit Distraction Long Life Elusive Dieting Tracking

Author:Sallie Tisdale

“I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a chance to develop and mature some systems; long duration, deep space stuff; and you're close enough to get some help, via radio from Earth.”

Thinking Giving Long Enough Helping Earth Stuff Chance Space Moon Radio Helpful Mature Mars Duration Deep Space

Author:Charles Duke

“If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.”

Ifs Thinking Should Long Facts Space Numbers Originals Filled Ill Dues Enormous Occasions Remembered Recalls Forgetfulness Get Ahead Omission

Author:William James

“I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain. Or they forgive fast in order to get an advantage over the people they forgive. And their instant forgiving only makes things worse... People who have been wronged badly and wounded deeply should give themselves time and space before they forgive... There is a right moment to forgive. We cannot predict it in advance; we can only get ourselves ready for it when it arrives... Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long.”

People Giving Should Long Has Beens Moments Pain Order Waiting Space Worry Ready Forgiveness Advantage Forgiving Instant Wounded Time And Space Right Moment Wronged

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“My soul is an entangled knot, Upon a liquid vortex wrought By Intellect in the Unseen residing, And thine doth like a convict sit, With marline-spike untwisting it, Only to find its knottiness abiding; Since all the tools for its untying In four-dimensional space are lying, Wherein they fancy intersperses Long avenues of universes, While Klein and Clifford fill the void With one finite, unbounded homoloid, And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.”

Thinking Long Soul Lasts Lying Universe Space Four Tools Infinite Intellect Destroyed My Soul Fancy Void Unseen Finite Avenues Abiding Liquid Knots Convicts Vortex Fill The Void

Author:James Clerk Maxwell

“There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.”

People Should Long Stills Young Sex Space Consciousness Youth Activity Quiet Long Time Aging Leaving Lovely Apples Old People Quiet Space

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.”

Way May Long Two Age Three Space Careers Particular Difficulty Favors Old Age Boots Lease Long Careers Traverse

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.”

People Long Matter Today Remember Space Levels Neighbor Settling Rhetoric Hostility Nigeria Settling Down

Author:Chinua Achebe

“In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship. The trick, however, is to remember that hope is a perilous thing, that it's not a steel and concrete bridge across the void between this moment and a brighter future. Hope is no stronger than tremulous beads of dew strung on a filament of spider web, and it alone can't long support the terrible weight of an anguished mind and a tortured heart.”

Source: Seize the Night: A Novel

“It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young, Canon Brookes, William Bolitho, and Harold Eaton--have not devoted more space to the Greene tragedy; for here, surely, is one of the outstanding murder mysteries of modern times--a case practically unique in the annals of latter-day crime.”

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Book:The Greene Murder Case

Source: The Greene Murder Case

“I belong to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane. There is no space alotted for another pilot to tune the radios in the weather or make the calls to air traffic control centers or to help with the emergency procedures or to call off the airspeed down final approach. There is no one else to break the solitude of a long cross-country flight. There is no one else to make decisions.”

Source: Flying: The Aviation Trilogy

“There is no theory that would guide us through interplantary space to another world even if we could control our departure from the earth; there is no means of carrying the large amount oxygen, water, and food that would be necessary for such a long journey; and there is not known way of easing our ether ship down on the surface of another world, if we could get there.”

Ifs World Way Mean Long Would Be Earth Water Space Known Journey Theory Amount Surface Guides Ships Aviation Predictions Oxygen Departure Another World Long Journey

Author:Forest Ray Moulton

“The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural one to the British, and not one to be eradicated by changes of political or religious fashion. ... It was general custom in pagan Europe to decorate spaces with greenery and flowers for festivals, attested wherever records have survived.”

Source: Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain

“Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there. For me, a flight in a shuttle, though most satisfying, would be anticlimactic after my flight to the moon. Plus, if I pursued a flight myself, people would think that was the reason I am trying to generate interest in public spaceflight. And that's not the purpose - I want to generate interest in long-range space exploration.”

“I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem - just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.”

Thinking Way Long Sound Lines Space Reader Breaths Musical Driving Symbols Hills Bridges Etc Traffic Pauses Urgency Indication Steep Icy Intersections Long Lines

Author:Adrienne Rich

“I hope we find evidence of dark matter in the lab and in outer space. This would go a long way to proving the correctness of string theory, which is what I do for a living. That is my day job. So string theory is a potentially experimentally verifiable theory.”

Way Long Matter Jobs Dark Space Theory Prove Evidence Strings Long Way Labs Correctness Outer Space Day Jobs String Theory Dark Matter

Author:Michio Kaku

“That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils of Newton.... The phrases of last century in this Linger to play tricks- Vis viva and Vis Mortua and Vis Acceleratrix:- Those long-nebbed words that to our text books still Cling by their titles, And from them creep, as entozoa will, Into our vitals. But see! Tait writes in lucid symbols clear One small equation; And Force becomes of Energy a mere Space-variation.”

“...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan the photographs. Stop and think about them. Try to imagine the scale. The Earth is just a speck of dust on one distant whirling tentacle of the Milky Way galaxy, which contains billions of stars. A 'collision' of galaxies seems unimaginably large - and yet it is something scientists long ago imagined... The imaginings of pseudoscience are feeble by comparison.”

“The health of our home planet and the survival of our species will only be secured through the use of space resources and the expansion of Earth's economic sphere to the Moon and beyond. Creating an off-Earth economy and multi-planet civilization will safeguard the long term prospects of humanity.”

Long Use Home Earth Humanity Term Space Economy Economic Planets Civilization Moon Creating Survival Resources Species Long Term Spheres Expansion Prospects Secured

Author:Bob Richards