quotes about Hopes And Fears

“I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.”

Source : "John F. Nash Jr. - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 1994") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.

“Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.”

“Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.”

“Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.”

“To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.”

“Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.”

Source : Christopher Morley “Kitty Foyle”

“You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our bank accounts. They affect our communications, our pension funds. They even affect the food that we eat and our governments.”

“Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.”

Source : "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20-21, 1997.

“I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.”

“I have not seen that standardised tests make the profession less attractive, though some principals respond to them in a way that drives the best teachers out of their schools (by over-emphasising test prep in the school curriculum for example). On the other hand, great teachers want benchmarks to measure progress and tests can help with that.”

Source : Source: www.economist.com