#si

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph. ↗

— Walt Disney

#cartoonist #check #contract #days #i

I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#against #always #been #conditions #factor

I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#am #best #business #estate #except

If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#cannot #damaged #fix #fixed #hard

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers. ↗

— Gordon Gee

#duty #fabric #produce #universe #university

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#beauty #different #elegance #historians #intuition

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#bias #conscious #feminism #feminist #i

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#i #i think #more #moving #point

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#best #i #i think #seems #still

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#actually #always #amusing #anthropology #been