I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
— Isaac Asimov · Breathe
The World Motivation
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
— Isaac Asimov · Breathe
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“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.”
“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.”
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
“And just how did you arrive at that remarkable conclusion, Mr. Mayor?”
“In the Premier League, you don't have one second to breathe - you have to be on it from the first minute. If you lose focus - just for a few seconds - the game will pass you by. It's 100 miles an hour.”
“I schedule 'me' time because, just like everyone else, I need to unwind. I try to remember to take it easy and breathe.”
“There are a lot of opportunities to do a lot of great, wonderful things, and if you say yes to them all, you will not sleep or breathe or eat.”
“I breathe music... The acting is a job, but music is life. You need a job to live.”
“I live and breathe cricket 24/7.”
“If I'm in a pressurised situation, I've learned to breathe, chill myself out and be calm.”
“I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.”