#some

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#agenda #allow #been #contact #distract

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#dad #each #eccentricity #felt #grew

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#conversational #exceeds #grasp #his #overachiever

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#overdoing #something #sometimes #worth

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#does #doubt #himself #man #reassured

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#cinema #feel #fond #from time to time #having

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#because #curious #get #getting #getting older

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#am #dosage #figure #i #i am

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that. ↗

— Katie Ledecky

#feeling #feeling good #good #great #i

I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#ask #back #bored #contract #could