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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#formula #imagination #instantly #me #need

I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day. ↗

— Richard Lester

#about #assistant #because #day #director

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. ↗

— Robert Burton

#farther #giant #himself #may #see

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#been #each #easy #first #lifetime

We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition. ↗

— Gilbert Newton Lewis

#base #concentration #define #definition #frequently

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#also #around #being #economic #emotional

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#calls #chasing #early #growing #growing up

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. ↗

— Robert Ley

#explain #something #sometimes #understanding

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#duty #end #faith #let us #lets

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#alone #believe #everyone #i #i do