I was voted 'most shy' in seventh grade! Can you even believe it?
Su-chin Pak
Recitation: by Male by Female
Yes, horoscopes still persist in popular newspapers, but they are there only for the severely scientifically challenged, or for entertainment; the idea that the stars determine our fate has lost all intellectual currency.
Robert J. Shiller
StarsFateLostIntellectualYes
To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
Jean Piaget
KnowledgeThinkWayHumanActive
People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.
John Roos
OpportunityExperiencePeopleYou
I am disappointed when I don't win, because I want to believe I can win on every horse I ride, which is a ridiculous thing to think. Even if I'm on a horse that I have woken up thinking has no chance, by the time I've reached the course, I'll have convinced myself that it can win and will be disappointed if it doesn't.
Tony McCoy
TimeMyselfRideI AmWinBelieve
Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.
Joseph Needham
TechnologyScienceThoughtChina
When we think of what is necessary for the phenomenon that we call life, we think of compartmentalization, keeping the molecules which are important for life in a membrane, isolated from the rest of the environment, but yet, in an environment in which they actually could originate together.
Dimitar Sasselov
LifeTogetherRestThinkEnvironment
At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen clubs each asking for a trial.
Drew Busby
MyselfSchoolFirstDivisionAsking
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
Dorothea Lange
EyesNothingMoreSeeTellOwn
In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.
David Shields
BeginningWritingEarlyLateThree
Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear.
Bradley Chicho
FriendTimeYouGemsPreciousShare
I think as a young person, leaving high school or college, you're like, 'All right, all right, enough already.' But now there's a part of me that would like to go back and relish those moments when you could sit down and just... read a book.
Phillipa Soo
SchoolCollegeMeBookThinkEnough
The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'
Susanna Kearsley
CharacterBestWordsDownPageWay
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