#rely

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#mind #only #own #questions #rarely

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#fact #fully #lacking #lives #may

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#broadest #broadest sense #comprehending #instrument #knowledge

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#between #conventions #crowd #different #entirely

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#read #seen #should #sight #writers

You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#behind #challenge #character #convey #create

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. ↗

— Willa Cather

#hand #human #intimate #irregular #made

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#important #incremental #intuitions #nature #new

Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#against #beef #consider #economic #even

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#both #came #canon #composers #depended