#yin

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. ↗

— Tom Landry

#achieving #deciding #go #goal #how

There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it. ↗

— George C. Scott

#get #pumped #question #realise #recognition

Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the whole time that you're talking. Convinced that you're living whole time that I'm dying. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#death #dying #sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that. ↗

— Robert Lansing

#forward #get #i #know #looking

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#absurdly #all things #become #beneath #earth

There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. ↗

— Doug Larson

#few #few things #more #own #satisfying

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#done #goes #just #keep #like

When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#began #discovery #ever #following #fractional

I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen. ↗

— Henry Laurens

#carrying #cause #effect #fill #happen

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#each #like #trying #tune #violin