#though

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual. ↗

— Alexander Fleming

#details #due #enterprise #first #idea

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture. ↗

— Dario Fo

#connotations #culture #i #i see #ideology

Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding. ↗

— Helen Clark

#areas #biodiversity #continues #countries #expanding

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#admit #after #anyone #beginning #came

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#deceptive #destiny #example #found #mirror

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#future #i #later #lives #many

One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#book #concentrates #doing #fairly #i

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again. ↗

— Noel Coward

#i #marrying #sometimes #then #thought

Showing up to games year after year, no matter what the product on the field gives you back, is a learned behavior - sort of like rats in a maze searching for cheese. The rat learns the maze, learns where the cheese is placed and eventually goes to it without thought, even when the cheese is taken away. The rat doesn't know anything else. ↗

— Joe Cowley

#anything #away #back #behavior #cheese

I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm. ↗

— Edgard Varese

#dream #exigencies #i #i dream #inner