#bing

There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week. ↗

— Jorge Garcia

#audience #balance #between #certainly #early

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#activity #because #exalted #excellence #good

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth. ↗

— Helen Garner

#behaviour #destructive #destructiveness #disturbing #echoes

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#colleagues #culture #even #fame #fulfilled

I'm really bad at describing my own life. ↗

— Helmut Lang

#describing #i #life #my own #own

If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community. ↗

— Serge Lang

#baltimore #behavior #community #disturbing #far

I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#blow #bulbs #chemistry #elementary #glass

I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike! ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#also #archery #climbing #combat #done

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#around #buildings #climbing #had #i

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#concepts #describing #flow #into #lacks