I believe that we need to slow down.
ALAN LIGHTMANMost people have learned to live in the moment.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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Every essay – the subject matter of every essay – is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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