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“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
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“I mean, we’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention. In some ways, this is getting far afield. I mean, we are—as far as we know—the only part of the universe that’s self-conscious. We could even be the universe’s form of consciousness.”
― Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
― Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
“Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.”
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“An ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a book-keeper.”
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“I am not the only one who sometimes thinks I came from the pages of a book my father wrote.
Maybe it’s like that for all boys of a certain —or uncertain— age: We feel as though there are no choices we’d made through all those miles and miles behind us that hadn’t been scripted by our fathers, and that our futures are only a matter of flipping the next page that was written ahead of us.
I am not the only one who’s ever been trapped inside a book.”
― 100 Sideways Miles
Maybe it’s like that for all boys of a certain —or uncertain— age: We feel as though there are no choices we’d made through all those miles and miles behind us that hadn’t been scripted by our fathers, and that our futures are only a matter of flipping the next page that was written ahead of us.
I am not the only one who’s ever been trapped inside a book.”
― 100 Sideways Miles
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