Top 12 Calic Quotes
#1. Authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured.
Walter Isaacson
#2. It's a thin line between what we're calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you're supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how to control our emotions? Does the army teach us how to deal with a friend bleeding out in front of you? No.
David Finkel
#3. Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I'm stricken
by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain
everythingness of everything, in cahoots
with the everythingness of everything else.
- From Diffraction (for Carl Sagan)
Diane Ackerman
#4. When they would spar, Calic held nothing back, as if he possessed a deep rage clawing for release. He demonstrated a ferocity Sebastian had never seen the likes of. Sebastian had the same rage bubbling inside him. However, he was able to hone it differently by focusing on the survival of his crew
Kiersten Fay
#5. Sometimes, everyone is right. Not always and not even usually, but once in a while, everyone is right.
Cherie Priest
#6. The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#7. [While] the primary responsibility, as we all acknowledge, (falls) with the family, ... Our homes, our families, our children's minds are being flooded by a tide of violence.
John McCain
#8. By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you; then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#9. The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our system doesn't institutionalize the oppositional voice, and one needs to be able to hear the exchange of the debate in order to create an informed electorate.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
#10. Cale! Have you had a female in here?"
Calic laughed carelessly. "Depends on when you're referring to.
Kiersten Fay
#11. I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.
Jamie Wyeth
#12. Humankind's greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world.
Jonathon Porritt
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