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David McCandless Quotes

Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.

David McCandless

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british

Topics

Great Day Me World Information Find

I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.

Capitalism Think Everything I Think

Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of adulthood. The second reinforced that for someone like me - an immigrant, a minority, an Asian-American - there were limits.

Me Growing Up Limits America Someone

People who've read my reviews know my tastes, know how I approach a book, know my background. I can write with believable authority. It doesn't mean I'm always right.

People Book I Can Know Authority

Teach her story to future generations, and at least the moral debt owed to Jean McConville can be repaid. Jean McConville. Jean McConville. Jean McConville.

Future Story Moral Teach Debt Her

I love producing shows. And so when you're on a show where other people are making decisions you don't necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.

Love People Start Decisions You

My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things.

Robbie Robertson

Mother Music Me Sometimes Out Big

Superconductivity helped broaden my professional phase space. When I started my work, it was already known that magnetic fields could quench superconductivity. I found that the transition was not continuous, that superconductivity was initially enhanced in the presence of magnetic fields, then it would suddenly fall off.

Mildred Dresselhaus

Work Space Fall Professional Started

To complain now would be kind of sad. I like the way things are going.

Sad Be Kind Now Kind Way Complain

There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

Time World Think Stand Enough Adapt

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

I Am Me Problem Doing True Things

I inherited the old family turkey farm, and I'm turning it into a fun place to go for my kids.

Douglas Carter Beane

Family Fun Farm Place Go Old

The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing.

Deborah Moggach

Family Rain Child Window Thinking

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