A Quotes
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“All industry must be excited by hope.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“All infants and children require and deserve comfort in order to develop properly. Soft cooing voices, gentle touch, smiles, cleanliness, and wholesome food all contribute to the growing body/mind. And when these basic conditions are absent in childhood, our need for comfort in adulthood can be so profound that it becomes pathological, driving us to seek mothering from anyone who will have us, to use others to fill our emptiness with sex or love, and to risk becoming addicted to a perceived source of comfort.”
Source: Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
“All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning.”
“All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere.”
Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival
“All information is good, even when it is bad.”
“All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.”
“All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.”
Source: My Ears Are Bent
“All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.”
Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)
“All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.”
“All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.”
Source: Freedom Under Siege
“All'inizio era lividi. Poi graffi. Mi calmano un momento. Righe rosse precise, a volte lettere a comporre parole, bellissime parole a comporre frasi, prese da dove. Graffi, segni delle lacrime che di segni non ne lasciano mai. All'inizio erano graffi, portavano via piccole porzioni di pelle e sporcizia. Andavano facilmente via. Con l’unghia. Poi un giorno ricordo com'era bello lasciarsi medicare. Com'era facile sentirsi consolata, una goccia di disinfettante per bambini, verde che non brucia. A lacerare e lacerarsi ci vuole un attimo.”
Source: Lost Cause
“All'inizio le ali pesano più delle catene, perché con le catene non ci era richiesto di sollevarci in volo.”
“All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous.
Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes the resistance triggers the emotional pain body”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.”
Source: How to Paint a Dead Man
“All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.”
Source: The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
“All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.”
“All innovations have loopholes. You can find the holes and fill them. That might just be your own invention. Remember that with social platforms came social insecurity.”
“All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.”
Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science
“All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.”
Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science
“All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.”
“All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.”
“All instincts told me to walk away and not look back. My life had been of numbing peace, of interminable serenity, and here was the promise of disruption, a little intermission in the monotony that my life had become.”
“All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.”
“All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the three original TV networks.”
“All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon; and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond.”
Source: Buddhist Art in Its Relation to Buddhist Ideals
“All instruments sound fantastic in a church.”
“All integral laws of spectral lines and of atomic theory spring originally from the quantum theory. It is the mysterious organon on which Nature plays her music of the spectra, and according to the rhythm of which she regulates the structure of the atoms and nuclei.”
Source: Atombau und Spektrallinien.
“All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.”
“All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.”
Source: No Clouds of Glory
“All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.”
“All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered ... to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. ... Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.”
“All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.”
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.”
“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”
“All interested parties must be willing to make significant sacrifices.”
“All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.”
“All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an unanticipated phenomenon occurs again and again—finally turning into an expectation—then theories are overturned.”
Source: Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
“All Internet comedy is niche comedy. If you do an Internet video about Halo, every Halo fan will send it to every other Halo fan. But if you did an episode of a network comedy that parodied Halo, most of your audience wouldn't even get it.”
“All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.”
“All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.”
Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel
“All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found to be unsatisfactory. Hence, a change of mind in a scientist, and particularly in a great scientist, is not only not a sign of weakness but rather evidence for continuing attention to the respective problem and an ability to test the hypothesis again and again.”
“All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government wars are unjust, although some governments have less unjust claims.”
“All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
“All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.”
“All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.”
“All inventions are not patentable, and all patented subjects are not inventions.”
Source: Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
“All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.”
“All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.”
Source: Against the Day
“All investing is impact investing. The key is to ensure that the impacts brought about by our investments are the kind that make the world a better place.”