Them - Quotes
It's much easier to become interested in others than it is to convince them to be interested in you.
A person`s never too old for stories [...]. Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them.
If you had all the answers you desire, [...] - after you received them - what would be left for you to do?
Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
Imagine, a room, awash in gasoline. And there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has 9,000 matches. The other has 7,000 matches. Each of them is concerned about who`s ahead, who`s stronger. Well, that`s the kind of situation we are actually in.
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that`s a really good argument; my position is mistaken", and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn`t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
Every feature of a human organization is a result of a history, so that everything about them is negotiable and subject to improvement by the invention of new ways of doing things.
Thinking is hard. Thinking about some problems is so hard it can make your head ache just thinking about thinking about them.
Sometimes you don`t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them - if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix. Making mistakes is the key to making progress.
It is estimated that well over 99 percent of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without having had offspring. And yet here you are: of all your billions of ancestors over the years, from single cells to worms to fish to reptiles to mammals to primates, not a single one of them died childless. How lucky you are! Of course every blade of grass has an equally long and proud heritage, and every mosquito, and every elephant and every daisy.
When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.
It simply makes sense that I should miss my parents more than they miss me, especially when you consider that they only loved me for thirteen years while I loved them for my entire life.
The only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
Identify the things and people that make you feel unhappy and eliminate them from your life. Nothing good can come from them.
In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them.