#tory

This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton's famous phrase. Great breakthroughs are closer to what happens in a flood plain: a dozen separate tributaries converge, and the rising waters lift the genius high enough that he or she can see around the conceptual obstructions of the age. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#age

Whole generations have forgotten history. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#generations #history #whole

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#feel #history #i #our #own

I believe clothing tell a story. ↗

— Rachel Roy

#clothing #i #i believe #story #tell

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#afraid #death #defeat #fear #having

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#history #life #love #love is #man

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#history #human #human history #page #prolonged

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#facts #matter #obviously #reflects #story

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#fortunately #john #know #man #many

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work. ↗

— Phil Keoghan

#any #good #good story #heroes #make