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«I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.»
«It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.»
Author: Carlos Casteneda
| About:
Doing Your Best,
Potential
| Keywords:
Chaos, deepest, focus, make sense, mysterious, skills, tendency
«It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.»
Author: Deborah Tannen
| Keywords:
animosities, animosity, contention, contentions, discourse, General Public, headlined, headlines, taken over, tendency
«A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidence is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but l»
Author: John Allen Paulos
| Keywords:
accord, attributing, characteristic, coincidence, coincidences, conclusive, Correspondences, drastically, frequency, prime, significance, sorts, tendency, too little, underestimate
«Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.»
«For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.»
Author: Henri Bergson
(Philosopher)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
directions, divergent, impetus, sheaf, sheaves, tendency
«Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, ''How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?'' and avoid ''How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?''»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
collaborate, collaborated, collaborating, counseling, edit, edited, editing, editor, piece of writing, tendency, writing style
«Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
anticipate, anticipates, condemned, flee, idealize, idealized, idealizing, imaginary, imagining, inhabit, nostalgia, tendency, with nostalgia
«If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.»
Author: Leon Trotsky
| Keywords:
arouse, Bridges, disintegrate, disintegrated, disintegrates, disintegrating, hostile, imperative, imperatives, intelligentsia, internal, intolerant, intolerant of, laying, laying on of hands, monuments, opposition, peasantry, proletariat, revolutionary, standard, tendency, the revolution, threatens