There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
There's something to be said about sitting in front of the TV and being removed from your own life and just pushed into another one.
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.
I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another planet.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.
Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust.
Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning.
In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it's like learning another language.
Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.
An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.
Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.
What people don't realize is that everybody needs support, one way or another.
Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
