A Quote by John Derbyshire

I never ponder counterfactuals.

John Derbyshire

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Never Ponder

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John Derbyshire
American - Writer
Born: June 3, 1945

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

Maria Konnikova

I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.

Emily Dickinson

I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.

William Goldman

God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.

George MacDonald

Imagination is all about new possibilities, eventualities that don't exist, counterfactuals, a recombination of elements in new ways. It is about the untested. And the untested is uncertain. It is frightening-even

Maria Konnikova

It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

Roger Penrose

I'm neither excited nor worried when my film releases. As an artiste, I would definitely want people to like my work... that's why we are here. But I don't really sit up and look at reviews. I have never sat down to ponder over what others have to say.

Sayani Gupta

If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must move on, move forward but never forget the past, but learn from it. If you ponder the 'if onlys' of life, they will drive you mad.

Lorraine Heath

I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.

Haruki Murakami

I invite you to read again the full accounts of this inspired vision. Study them, ponder them, and apply them to your daily life. In modern terms we might say we are invited to "get a grip." We must hold on tight to the iron rod and never let go.