![The modern version of Buridan's ass [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as he is undecided between making a Leonardo da Vinci in the test tube or planting a Coca Cola sign on Mars.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-modern-version-of-buridans-ass-a-figurative-description-of-a-man-of-indecis.jpg)
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growing-up school expectations
...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work. Chris Crutcher
growing-up way bumpy-roads
Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me. Chris Evans
growing-up children parenting
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. Charles Spurgeon
growing-up tvs grows
I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV. Diane Kruger
growing-up hero growing
I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up. Dennis Ritchie
growing-up parent age
To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate. Dennis Prager
growing-up influence chicks
Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up. Debra Wilson
growing-up mean political
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. Eleanor Roosevelt
growing-up climbing habit
I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up Elbert Hubbard
men united
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. Albert Schweitzer
men thinking matter
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
men problem great-men
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
men thinking evil
Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.
men thinking bears
Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.
men doe musician
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.
men thinking giving
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
men destiny humans
The destiny of man is to be more and more human.
men perfection personality
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
marshall voices wrenching
Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female. Kate Christensen
mars done environment
Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve. Arne Jacobsen
mars south-dakota dies
Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here. Bill Kurtis
marshall might
Here's an interesting thought about what might result: a good-better-best approach, with Macy's the 'good', Bloomingdales the 'better' and Marshall Field's the 'best,' Wendy Liebmann
mars
I've seen Bruno Mars before, he's amazing. Alessandra Ambrosio
marshall strong
Marshall has a really strong team. We didn't play badly, they were just that much better.
mars treat
Mars doesn't treat you very well, for the most part. So this is a very challenging thing to do." ()
mars point ran run time
At some point the volcanism will run out. It ran out on Mars a long time ago, and it has partially run out on Earth, Fred Taylor
mars people send
At the beginning, some people thought we were a 'me too' mission: Send a lander to Mars and take a picture. Colin Pillinger