T.E. Lawrence Quotes

The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment “Now.” As this moment steadily advances through time it coagulates a wavy future into a particle past.

Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.

Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.

There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence

It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen.

People call me fat, but I don't care. I don't want to starve myself cause I am beautiful the way I am.

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Celebrate our brief moment in the sun

Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity!

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

Don't give up the ship!

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn.

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars

In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

Invent a new language anyone can understand.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

Growth and change are never easy...If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.

We meditate to find, to recover, to come back to something of ourselves we once dimly and unknowingly had and have lost without knowing what it was or where or when we lost it.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.

I've always loved food too much to be a model.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.