Renius Owen Quotes

#1. Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.

Alex Tabarrok

#3. I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life,

Haile Gebrselassie

#4. The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.

Bobby Rush

#5. It's easy to think of things that need to be done, but they all have a prerequisite, namely, a mass popular base that is committed to implementing it.

Noam Chomsky

#6. Come what may and love it.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#7. Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

Karl Kraus

#8. and I realize I've never felt this, not to this degree, not like every moment is about to explode, like every breath could be our last, like every touch is enough to ignite the world.

Tahereh Mafi