David Easton quotes
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“Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.”
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“In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life - the plants and animals that inhabit the earth - has evolved merely to regulate the chemistry of the biosphere. Humans are insignificant participants, far less important to the life cycle than termites. Even the imbalance that we have created by adding massive quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere may be brought back to acceptable levels by other organisms functioning in their capacity to correct excesses.”
-- David EastonSource : David Easton (2007). “The Rammed Earth House”, p.54, Chelsea Green Publishing
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“Approach any room with the goal of making it the most attractive and comfortable, the room you want to live in the most.”
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“If you have 8-foot ceilings, you'll want a low sofa, which gives the impression that the ceiling is taller than it is. In a room with a high ceiling, you want a high-back sofa to be a weighty presence that can hold up to the room.”
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“You must find the passion, an unrelenting passion.”
-- David Easton
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“You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”
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“I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry.”
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“There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.”
Source : "Bird flu: how two mutant strains led to an international controversy" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.
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“Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.”
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“Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.”
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