Fertile Quotes - Page 5

• Data is the new soil, because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium. Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.

  David Mccandless

  Government, Years, Data

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• I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

  Mohsin Hamid

  War, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate because they want to create a different tomorrow than what they're living in today. And it's that culture of innovation that spawns entirely new economies.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Space, People, Innovation

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Space, Calendars, Cosmic

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture and mathematics and engineering and medicine and astronomy, and then that all sort of collapsed. And I was trying to understand how such a intellectually fertile environment can lose its compass bearing. Because I think about the creative centers today - countries, or even regions. Will Silicon Valley always be as innovative? Will the United States be innovative, or will we become complacent?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Thinking, Engineering

  Source: bookriot.com

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• If you can make something genuine, then the ground is fertile for introducing something new. And that happened a few times in my life where I could sow the seeds and see something grow out of it.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Introducing, Something New, Genuine

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think we are only going to get it by standing up and voting our values, understanding that the lesser evil doesn't solve the problem. It just prolongs the problem and it paves the way to the greater evil. That the policies of the Clintons, the Wall Street deregulation and NAFTA, created the economic misery that becomes very fertile territory for demagogues like Donald Trump.

  Jill Stein

  Wall, Thinking, Evil

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.

  Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

  Beauty, Country, Land

  Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Marco da Nizza (padre), Antonio de Mendoza (1964). “The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative”

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• Humility is essential to the acquiring of spiritual knowledge. To be humble is to be teachable. Humility permits you to be tutored by the Spirit and to be taught from sources inspired by the Lord, such as the scriptures. The seeds of personal growth and understanding germinate and flourish in the fertile soil of humility. Their fruit is spiritual knowledge to guide you here and hereafter.

  Richard G. Scott

  Spiritual, Humble, Humility

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• Imagination is so much more fertile than life.

  Yuriy Tarnawsky

  Imagination

  "No Tall Tales". Interview with David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.

  G. Harry Stine

  Technology, Years, Revolution

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• Why should the immediate opportunity set be the only one considered, when tomorrow's may well be considerably more fertile than today's?

  Seth Klarman

  Opportunity, May, Today

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• The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature, to the breathtaking array of possibilities that can emerge, tangled and wild, from the fertile human endowments of brain and larynx, intelligence and social skills.

  Arika Okrent

  Color, Skills, Tangled

  Arika Okrent (2009). “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”, p.5, Spiegel & Grau

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• There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

  J. K. Rowling

  Class, Hypocrisy, Competition

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

  Joan Miro

  Giving, Imagination, World

  "Calder/Miró". Book by Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Oliver Wick (p. 82, note 24), 2004.

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• To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

  William James

  Creativity, Next, Firsts

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• At our base level we are animals. And so, my theory is that women are only considered attractive as long as they look fertile because we, as humans, are made to reproduce and move on. And so we kind of can't ever get away from our animalistic nature, in a way.

  Erin Davie

  Moving, Animal, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.

  Andrew Bird

  Imagination, Research, Metaphor

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen.

  Kevin Kelly

  Order, Organization, Growth

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• There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.

  Paul Goodman

  Silence, Dumb, Soul

  Paul Goodman (1972). “Speaking and language: defence of poetry”, Random House, [1972

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• The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.

  John Moody

  Land, Acres, Today

  John Moody (2013). “The Railroad Builders (Volume 38 Chronicles of America)”, CreateSpace

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• America has always been the most fertile ground for models - and they were always exported to other countries. When Eastern Europe opened up its doors to the rest of the world, a lot of the girls that were basically working there for $1 a month realized that if they were beautiful and that they could go to Paris and work for $1,000 a day versus the $10,000 that the other girls were demanding. So it created a huge imbalance in the financial structure of how clients could budget out campaigns. The market became flooded.

  Michael Flutie

  Beautiful, Girl, Country

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his rights therein." But now, at any rate, as I have frequently observed, a man may desert the fertile frontier territories of truth and justice, which are the State's best lands, for fear of far more insignificant foes, without forfeiting any of his civil rights therein. Nay, townships are granted to deserters, and the General Court, as I am sometimes inclined to regard it, is but a deserters' camp itself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Rights, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.92, Jazzybee Verlag

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• [The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hands, Luxury, Poverty

  Edward Gibbon (1820). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.8

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• Truth has to fall on fertile soil.

  Paula D'Arcy

  Fall, Soil, Fertile Soil

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