Blackwelder Quotes

#1. Like two side to a coin, there are two sides to life: your reason and emotional facets.

Ami Blackwelder

#2. [About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases the interest lay in the value of the suggestion and sometimes in the obvious need for rebuttal.

Richard E. Blackwelder

#3. Zoological taxonomists in general are inclined to be practical workers rather than philosophers, if only because they face such an unending task that they are not encouraged to sit back and philosophize.

Richard E. Blackwelder

#4. I try to focus on what I'm supposed to do, and to do my job the best I can. I kind of let everything happen the way it's supposed to happen, let everything fall into place the way it should.

Jeremy Lin

#5. Understanding and connection can transcend conflict.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#6. Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

Madeleine L'Engle

#7. If Allah wants to send me a message,
he'll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters.

Michael Muhammad Knight

#8. The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all the other branches, since the first step in obtaining any knowledge of things about us is to discriminate between them and to learn to recognize them.

Richard E. Blackwelder

#9. Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Paulo Freire

#10. Higher ebook prices don't benefit me, booksellers or readers, and that means something is really wrong.

Michael A. Stackpole

#11. The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.

Oliver E. Williamson

#12. You can always trust a man who tucks his shirt inside his underpants.

Bill Tidy

#13. As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

Josh Groban

#14. If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.

N.K. Jemisin

#15. I don't work at night. I'm not very good about working at night. I get tired during the day and I usually like to save my nights to try things out recording.

Sune Rose Wagner