#on

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from. ↗

— Amy Tan

#came #find #grateful #i #ideas

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#inspiration #looking #now #scene #urban

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person. ↗

— Amy Tan

#forgive #i #learned #me #mother

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. ↗

— Amy Tan

#culture #onerous #placing #represent #responsibility

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#because #been #building #child #chose

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ↗

— Edward Teller

#believe #believes #effective #everyone #fact

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution. ↗

— Randall Terry

#comes #commandments #concept #french #french revolution

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#could #entered #environment #eventually #experience

The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#back #being #born #gone #grew

When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#came #closely #electronics #employment #engineer