#plate

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#improve #learn #less #mind #order

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets. ↗

— Anita Diament

#already #any #before #book #came

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#existence #let us #moral #us

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion. ↗

— Robert Duncan

#constantly #coupled #earth #erosion #found

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#anybody #between #contemplate #could #difference

If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#ever #made #might #offering #plate

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#i #involves #liberating #me #plate

It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game. ↗

— Al Leiter

#all day #big #break #day #game

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#artist #being #different #hats #hopefully

Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career. ↗

— Eric Liu

#any #arrival #asian #asian american #athletes