#sights

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. ↗

— Eileen Caddy

#absolutely #absolutely nothing #allow #any #better

Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#become #cut #down #energy #fundamentally

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#back #day #factory #far-reaching #go

I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government... that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet... the song that inspires and lifts people's sights. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#criticism #day-to-day #get #government #hymn

If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#area #attack #coasts #continental #could

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit. ↗

— John Joly

#beautiful #magnificent #most #most beautiful #nature

I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#how #i #making #olympic #olympic team

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#consumes #create #decision #decision making #decisions

These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world. ↗

— John E. Walker

#atomic #biological #complete #complex #domain

The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind chance. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#human-condition #insights #music #attitude