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Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: german
Birth: July 1, 1742 - February 24, 1799

Topics

Habit Mind Free Moral Hard Over

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

Jodi Picoult

Family Morning Wolves Thinking Wolf

The Icesave matter is complex and it is understandable that the issue has been oversimplified by many. Unfortunately some of the basic facts of the matter have been unilaterally interpreted, and sometimes distorted, giving rise to unjustified criticism of the conduct of the Icelandic authorities.

Johanna Siguroardottir

Facts Criticism Giving Rise Matter

My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can't walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication.

Andy Behrman

Today Walk Eating Restaurant Candy

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

Jeannette Rankin

War Compromise Common Sense Decency

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

Tom Freston

Yourself Push You Seeing Sometimes

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.

Ritchie Blackmore

I Can Hand Old Strings Fine Just

Well, my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that don't have anything to do with health care.

Russ Feingold

Health Money Care View Insurance

As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit evolved from a very simple mechanism for decoding basic information, like the number of goats in one's herd, to the present, highly elaborated reading brain.

Maryanne Wolf

Work Simple Brain Reading Present

The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.

Mimi Rogers

Past School Me High School Problem

I have always practiced by myself. It's just because that is when I can do the most work, the most efficient work, is when I am by myself, and I think I just find a little bit of peace when it comes to being able to be out here on the golf course, and you are just you and yourself and your thoughts.

Jason Day

Work Myself Peace Yourself I Am You

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

Jason Reitman

Job Feel Director Disappear Just

I was going to be a chemical engineer - I was a science nerd - that was the plan. I secretly applied to USC and NYU and got a scholarship to go to NYU based on a dumb animated short I made. It was a huge shock to me and my family.

Jon Watts

Family Science Me Short Plan Dumb