#ding

Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#cd-rom #check #databases #everyone #existing

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. ↗

— Lee Child

#books #discovered #hotels #i #left

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#ends #higher #knowledge #nothing #our

I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment. ↗

— Lee Child

#good #gourmet #guy #heading #i

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#because #bellow #his #knows #me

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#beauty #edge #evidence #high #high art

It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#deep #dim #doors #drawn #fire

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#consciousness #each #important #individual #lives

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#create #experience #including #observer #our

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#else #find #finding #get #i