Seth Shostak Quotes

The cosmos is three times as old as Earth. During most of creation's 14 billion year history, our solar system wasn't around. Nonetheless, the early universe still had the right stuff for life, and contained worlds that were just as suitable for spawning biology and intelligence as our own.

Seth Shostak

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LifeHistoryIntelligenceUniverse

Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.

Jennifer Hale

CharacterGiftOverYearsStayAble

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

Jennifer Nettles

MeMy OwnOwnPerfectionismHow

I was kind of a scaredy-cat as a kid, and I made a very deliberate decision at some point that I was not going to let fear rule my life or determine my experience. That wasn't so easily accomplished.

Andrew Solomon

LifeFearDecisionExperienceKind

A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.

Anatoly Rybakov

HeartMemoryPeopleOwnToolWriter

I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

Jeff Bridges

LifeLoveMomThinkMy LifeI Think

I think sometimes you go through an experience, and you don't feel the impact, especially in a war experience, until way past it.

Tom King

ExperiencePastWarThinkImpactGo

A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.

Mary Pope Osborne

HomeVacationMeWriting

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

Dick Smothers

MusicCollegeHotOutUpKids

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

Dorothy Hamill

PeopleStandIceYouPersonSkating

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

Dayananda Saraswati

HeartCultureReligionEmpathyTouch

There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.

Chris Cornell

TimeProcessBetterResultYouMore

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

Chris Hughes

ParentsPeopleLookMentorNeverUp

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