Gregory Benford Quotes

A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly.

Gregory Benford

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NatureScienceProcessViewOrder

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

Mel Brooks

VisionSupportIdeasWritingYou

No, we should not be afraid of the populists; we should embrace those they are fighting.

Jean-Claude Juncker

FightingEmbraceAfraidShouldThose

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.

Michael Arad

FaithDesignYouYoungWantAccept

A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, 'Clarissa' - that's not a novel; it's just a bunch of letters. But it isn't! Because it's organised in a particular way! A novel is what you make of it.

Romesh Gunesekera

StoryDoingYouBackGoNew

I was an ambidextrous child, and the symmetry of roller skating was a welcome respite from my awkwardness with physical activities that involved a ball or a racket.

Mary Pilon

WelcomeChildSkatingBallSymmetry

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.

Michael W. Smith

LearningGodBetterGetting Better

Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.

Michael Leunig

WinterBeautifulGreatArtSleep

I realized that I had the ability to carve out a life for myself, that it was in no way limited by what had already occurred in my past. And that inspired me to go to school.

Liz Murray

LifeMyselfPastSchoolMeGo

Well-being is how I feel in my skin, not about how other people are looking at me and what they see... it's what I feel like.

Josie Loren

PeopleMeLookingFeelSkinSee

San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

Chita Rivera

AmericaUnderstandAngelsUsWell

Basic SEAL training is six months of long, torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep and always being cold, wet and miserable.

William H. McRaven

WaterTrainingSleepObstaclesCold

I like it when someone tells me 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.

Pope Francis

GreatMeSomeoneSayTrueThey Say

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