You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
ISAAC ASIMOVIt is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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