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“I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.”
Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988), edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281
General sources
“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
“Only the ideas that we actually live are of any value.”
Source: Demian (1919), p. 146
Context: Only the ideas that we actually live are of any value. You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world and you tried to suppress the second half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.
“Some mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”
Cut It Out (2004)
Source: Wall and Piece
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
Source: On the Road: the Original Scroll
“The human imagination leaps to form the whole, to complete the scene in order to make sense of it.”
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 7 : Passion for Form, p. 131
Context: The human imagination leaps to form the whole, to complete the scene in order to make sense of it. The instantaneous way this is done shows how we are driven to construct the remainder of the scene. To fill the gaps is essential if the scene is to have meaning. That we may do this in misleading ways — at times in neurotic or paranoid ways — does not gainsay the central point. Our passion for form expresses our yearning to make the world adequate to our needs and desires, and, more important, to experience ourselves as having significance.
“I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.”
Variant: I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.
“But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.”
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
from poem Go to the Limits of Your Longing.
Appears in movie Jojo Rabbit.
Variant: Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
