A Quotes
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“An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.”
“An Important thing : never lie to yourself, for real... worst thing is when you lie to yourself, you just keep doing it and you don't know.”
“An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias.”
“An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.”
Source: Atheism and Theism
“An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.”
“An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.”
“An important work of architecture will create polemics.”
“An imposing wall prominently divides the visions of President Obama and congressional Republicans when it comes to economic growth and creating jobs. Solyndra is on one side and the Keystone pipeline is on the other.”
“An impossibility in the Milieu is as unlikely as white in a tail fire. - The Malwatch”
“An impotent beggar believes in begging for money and a potent beggar believes in begging for dowry”
“An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will engage in actions that mean something else to him than to others, but he is at peace with himself about everything as long as he can make it all come together in a fine idea.”
Source: The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic
“An impression thrills someone for a moment. An impact changes them for a lifetime. And although both words share the first three letters, they share little else.”
“An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.”
Source: Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing
“An improper mind is a perpetual feast.”
“An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection to creativity. It's the thing that you see in any amazing moment that any human being is performing. Whether it's watching Michael Jordan navigating through all these attackers and then suddenly rising up and putting the ball in the most amazing way, or watching an actor on stage playing Shakespeare, but not thinking about the actor anymore or the stage or you or the chair, any of these kinds of moments of transcendence.”
“An improvement comes through openness and willingness.”
“An improvement is not always worth it.”
“An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.”
“An in-depth study of the true reason for greatness of nations, will always lead a thorough researcher to the factor of virtues and values”
“An inability (or reduced ability) to empathise is not the same as an inability to love. Love is a powerful feeling for another person, often defying logic.”
Source: The Rosie Project
“An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“An inability to coherently express an opinion manifests itself by incoherent verbal abuse”
“An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language.”
Source: WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK
“An inability to deal with emotions in healthy ways is what toxic masculinity is all about. And, in most cases, what this really stems from is fear. They're afraid of the world changing, because then they might have to actually work a bit harder to be seen as important within it. So they shit on women and people of colour and anyone else fighting for political equality alongside them and screech about 'SJWs' and feminism being 'cancer' and think this is enough to mask the stench of fear that rolls off them in waves. But as any true Star Wars fan can tell you, fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
“An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.”
“An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.”
“An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.”
“An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.”
Source: Poems. With an introductory essay by J. Montgomery
“An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“An inappropriate attraction to your friend’s fiancé was grounds for disbarment from the Woman Club. Neither did it make a lick of sense. He was uncouth, uneducated, uncivilized. All of their conversations back then had been unholy bicker fests where they charged from the opposite ends of the spectrum, determined not to meet in the middle but to rip pieces out of each other on the drive by.”
Source: Even the Score
“An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.”
“An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation”
Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
“An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on; we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds; for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.”
“An incessant desire for fish became louder than all the things Lewis treasured: the heartbeat of language, the idea of living in a tree, the universal within the poetic, and his soft way of loving her.”
Source: Shark Heart
“An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.”
Source: Remains Concerning Britain
“An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.”
Source: Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight: (previously titled Cugel's Saga)
“An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.”
“An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.”
“An inch of wisdom is greater than a mile of knowledge.”
“An inch to a man’s heart is a mile to his wallet.”
“An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.”
“An incinerator is a writer's best friend.”
“An incipient Mother Man has always inhabited my deeper self; creativity has always been my companion ... I have tried to express myself in a very definite style but by means of all kinds of materials and formats. I wish to discover how my own creativity unfolds under different circumstances... Naples is a dilemma that fatally elicits an oneiric interpretation and I love it and feel grateful because it has nurtured my fantasy.”
“An inclusive admissions process considers various factors beyond academic performance, recognizing the unique strengths and potential of each applicant.”
“An inclusive world starts with each of us choosing to respect perspectives other than our own, treating everyone with respect and choosing to stand up for others who need our support. More than anything else, this is what going beyond diversity truly means.”
Source: Beyond Diversity
“An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.”
“An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.”
“An incompetent doctor practices, but a competent doctor performs.”
Source: Wealth of Words