Modiri Matthews Quotes

#1. I fear insignificance more than I fear failure.

Orrin Woodward

#2. You can't be too comfortable. I have to keep pushing myself to be a better fighter every step of the way.

Alexander Gustafsson

#3. There are those who condemn five in midfield as a negative tactic, but when a side's centre-backs are as hapless as Chris Perry and Hermann Hreidarsson were on Sunday, it is not nearly negative enough.

Matthew Engel

#4. Wrote my book in many places - houses in Florida, and in a cabin on a Wisconsin lake, and in a hotel room in Las Vegas. I

Neil Gaiman

#5. Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

Irvin D. Yalom

#6. By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

Ian Hacking

#7. I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

Nate Silver

#8. Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

Galileo Galilei

#9. Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.

Ray Bradbury

#10. I just have to be confident and actually try to do less, not try to do more.

Andre Ethier

#11. Planning on staying?"
"Just till you wise up."
"I'm flattered you think that's a possibility."
"Yeah, well it's lucky I've rolled a lot of vacation.

Josh Lanyon

#12. In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.

Tim Harford

#13. How did you know," Summer would demand, and then decide: "It's probably a coincidence."
"It's not a coincidence," Bird would say. "It's just obvious. Your body just knows."
"But how do you know?"
"How do you know a story is a good story or not?" asked Bird. "Like that. you know like that.

Katherine Catmull