Lobotomized Patients Quotes

#1. Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Freeman Dyson

#2. I can pour myself into Bon Iver. It's a thing about self- and mental discovery, and those are all important things. But it's not 148-shows-over-a-year-and-a-half important, though. It's a machine, and it's money, and you just get put on this indie rock cart, and it's embarrassing.

Justin Vernon

#3. Persistence in the face of failure is of course important, but it is not the same thing as dedication or passion. Persistence is a discipline that you learn; devotion is a dedication you can't ignore.

Stuart Firestein

#4. Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

Richard Branson

#5. I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent. You don't need to spend years together. All you need is an explosion: you are the material to explode; the teacher is the detonator.

Pierre Boulez

#6. It's only a question of time before either you die or your motivation dies. Naturally we all hope to go first.

Sophie Schiller

#7. If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

Dave Van Ronk

#8. Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate

Frank Herbert

#9. No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

Samuel Gompers

#10. That, Claire thought, was a pretty good definition of love: needing someone even after you got what you thought you wanted.

Rachel Caine

#11. The wise man is not he who gives the right answers; he is the one who asks the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss