Spectrum Quotes

• Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

  Temple Grandin

  Art, People, Giving

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• The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

  Stephen Hawking

  Past, Possibility, Future Possibilities

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• A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Motivational, Color, Organization

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Apr 29, 2013

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• I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Believe, Science

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• A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

  John Avlon

  Wings, People, Political

  "Six questions for John Avlon". Interview with John Avlon, www.economist.com. May 16, 2010.

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• To be human is to have a whole spectrum of these experiences that arise within us.

  Annie Lennox

  Arise, Humans, Whole

  "Annie Lennox: Music + Passion + Freedom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love Is, Space, Glasses

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.16, Vintage

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• My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Light, Color, Goal

  "Olafur Eliasson on Turning Light into Color". Interview with Elisa Wouk Almino, hyperallergic.com. January 14, 2015.

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• A garden is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death

  Tiffany Baker

  Garden, Birth, Whole

  Tiffany Baker (2009). “The Little Giant of Aberdeen County”, p.162, Hachette UK

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• I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

  Jim Harrison

  Love, Disappointment, Tired

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• I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Play, Annoying

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• Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

  Iris Murdoch

  Literature, Moral, Truth Is

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• I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

  Jim Harrison

  Disappointment, Giving, Risk

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

  Noam Chomsky

  Smart, Passivity Is, People

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press

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• We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the information that's riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us. Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Reality, Thinking

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• Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.

  Alan Lightman

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  "Alan Lightman Interview". Interview with Alex Burack, www.literarytraveler.com. May 4, 2007.

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• I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

  Mark Pellegrino

  Jazz

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• Magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses. Humans have cut themselves off from their senses. Now they see only a tiny portion of the visible spectrum, hear only the loudest of sounds, their sense of smell is shockingly poor and they can only distinguish the sweetest and sourest of tastes.

  Michael Scott

  Cutting, Smell, Magic

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.142, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I like to look at scenarios and see how people interact with each other. That's why I'm an actor because I try to recreate that. Since our daughter joined us the spectrum has widened.

  Colin Hanks

  Mother, Daughter, People

  "Colin Hanks gets "Lucky" with killer film, TV show". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

  Taylor Swift

  Falling In Love, Passion, Frustration

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• I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

  Billy Sherwood

  Song, People, Written

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• As the diagnosis of autism is increasing the diagnosis of mental retardation is decreasing. And more and more on the other end, the high end, more children who are just a little bit off, who ordinarily you would not single out now are being described as perhaps Asperger’s syndrome or on the high end of the autism spectrum, so I don’t believe there is an epidemic.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Children, Believe, Epidemics

  "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

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• No matter what side of the spectrum you're on, you like to see your team fighting for the principle.

  Bob McDonnell

  Team, Fighting, Principles

  "POLITICO's interview with Bob McDonnell". Interview with Andy Barr, www.politico.com. February 7, 2011.

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  IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

  Emma Watson

  Equality, Two, Feminist

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• White is associated with purity because the entire spectrum is functioning in unity. White is a healing color. White is appropriate for weddings because the unity of male and female symbolizes the unity of allness.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Wedding, Healing, Color White

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