Quotes About Clock Gears

#1. Ah," remarked one guest when the topic arose. "You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell the time.

Erin Morgenstern

#2. Men cannot think like dogs ... [There exists] a sharp difference in the mental capacity of humans and canines. For example, a human who is given an intricate problem will spend all day trying to solve it, but a canine will have the sense to give up and do something else instead.

Corey Ford

#3. Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that all scientific description was metaphoric.

Anne Rice

#4. Someday all the wilds will be razed, and we will be left with a concrete landscape, a land of pretty houses and trim gardens and planned parks and forests, and a world that works as smoothly as a clock, neatly wound: a world of metal and gears, and people going tick-tick-tick to their deaths.

Lauren Oliver

#5. You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.

Erin Morgenstern

#6. As counterintuitive as it sounds, 'speed to fail' should be every entrepreneur's motto. Success isn't born wholly-formed like Venus from a clamshell; it's developed through relentless trial and error.

Jay Samit

#7. By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light. You determine the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of your life.

Gary Zukav

#8. Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

Matt Biondi

#9. I'm little but I'm old, he said.

Anonymous

#10. The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of man; but none of them could develop institutions which would include the enemy, the unbeliever.

Geoffrey Gorer