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“Andy Scamp's simple list of the ways people feel valuable.
1. Just believing it.
Sometimes this is religious, sometimes it is not. God cares for everyone, but society is supposed to as well. We strive to live in a world that places tremendous even infinite value on a single human life. We do not live in that society, but I think part of the reason we strive for it is because we need to signal that our existence in intrinsically meaningful. This is the only source of meaning that does not rely on other people, it is also that hardest to hold onto.
2. Story
We understand ourselves in complex ways, but often times that can be distilled down into some core identities and we imagine these identities as part of a story and that that story is some intrinsically positive thing. It might being part of a tradition or breaking free of one. It might be your race or height or hair color. Your status as a child or a parent. Being a job creator or a Star Wars fan or a snowboarder. We create positive narrative around these things and when we fit in them we feel like we matter.
3. Being appreciated
It might be hearing someone laugh at your joke or being paid a living wage or getting likes on Instagram. It might be only external or come from within. Appreciation is almost synonymous with value and I think this is where most meaning comes from.
4. Helping People
This might sound the same as appreciation, but it is not. Indeed I think your average waste water treatment engineer will tell you that you can help a lot of people and not get a ton of thanks for it, but we are empathy machines and one of the most lasting and true ways of finding meaning is to actually be of service.
5. Comparison
You know, keeping up with the Jones. Also, every sport, but it is more than just comparing ourselves to other people. We also compare our current selves to our past selves which is why getting better at something makes us feel valuable. Even if we are the only ones who really understand how much we are improving.
6. Impacting the World
This one is simple, but so dangerous. If the world is different because you were in it then you must matter. You must be important if things changed because you exist, but if that is what you believe then the bigger the impact the more you matter and that can lead to some bad places.”
Source: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“Andy: ugh I’ve never felt so old and slimy.
Sinter: You’re 25. That isn’t old to a 19 year old
Andy: Old. And slimy. Slimy like a slug. Like seaweed.
Sinter: Are you done with your metaphors
Andy: I think these are similes
Though he’d been a computer science major, he’d also been, like me, an English minor. It made him remarkably hot at moments such as this.
Sinter: Right, you’re right
Andy: And no. There are many slimy things and I’m like them all. Slimy like mayo
Sinter: Gross
Andy: Exactly, I am gross
Sinter: Ha no, mayo is gross
Andy: Slimy like a dog’s tongue.
Sinter: Seriously stop.”
Source: All the Better Part of Me
“Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.”
“Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.”
“Andy Warhol made fame more famous.”
“Andy Warhol said that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Facebook is exactly like that except you're not really famous and your 15 minutes goes on forever.”
“Andy Warhol says everyone will be famous for 15 minutes in the future, but even he couldn't have imagine today's fame is due to whom you sleep with.”
“Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody.
Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about?
Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.”
“Andy was receptive, like a deep vessel into which life was poured. If this terrible particular thing hadn't been poured into her, she would have been happier--it goes without saying--but less of a person. She was filled out by her fate. I actually think that this is quite rare, the capacity to become the whole shape of the accidents that happen to you.”
“Andy Wiliams' smooth voice and casual style turned the songs he sang into timeless classics and made him one of America's top pop singers. ... The entertainment industry has lost a giant piece of its living history today, but Williams' legacy will forever be enshrined in the annals of music and television.”
“Andábamos sin buscarnos, pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos”
Source: Rayuela
“Ane bow that is ay bent Worthis ay unsmart and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent In ernistfull thochtis and in studying.”
“Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.”
Source: The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
“Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chainsaw thrown at you”
Source: The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal
“Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment.”
“Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.”
“Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced his son had been dishonest regarding an issue, Cosby promised that if he told him the truth, he would not hit him. When his son did confess, Cosby did hit him. Seeing his son's shock and hurt, Cosby said he hoped this lesson had deepened his understanding of the anguish generated by a sense betrayal.”
“Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.”
“Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. .... There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty.”
“Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when invited to a White House reception hosted by then President and First Lady Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Jackson had been assured that the only people there, besides the presidential couple, would be a few staff members' children. Aghast to find around 75 adults and no children, Jackson locked himself in an upstairs bathroom, refusing to emerge until assured that all non-essential adults had been replaced by a number of children.”
“Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.”
“Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.”
“Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.”
“Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.”
Source: The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters
“Anekico ler aracnia"
~Victory to the spider
"Ki mi ypomonitikosi teleson semerie"
~And today my patience ends”
“Anelka was travelling so fast that he couldn't keep his own feet”
“Anemia made the tissues and organs small and pale.”
“Anesthesia is quite remarkable. Its lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.”
“Anesthesia was discovered. Do you know what it means to relieve man of his pain and suffering? Anesthesia is the most humane of all of man's accomplishments, and what a merciful accomplishment it was. For this great discovery we are indebted to Dr. W. T. G. Morton.
Do you know that the religionists opposed the use of anesthesia on the ground that God sent pain as a punishment for sin, and it was considered the greatest of sacrileges to use it—just think of it, a sin to relieve man of his misery! What a monstrous perversion! This one instance alone should convince you of the difference in believing in God or not.
No believer in God would have spent his energies to discover anesthesia. He would have been in mortal fear of the wrath of his God for interfering with his 'divine plan,' of making man suffer for having eaten of the fruit of the 'Tree of Knowledge.'
The very crux of the matter is in this one instance. Man seeks to relieve his fellow man from the suffering of disease and the pangs of mental agony. The believers in God are content that man's suffering is ordained, and therefore he accepts life and its trials and tribulations as a penance for living.
The fear of the wrath of God has been a stumbling block to progress.”
Source: An Atheist Manifesto
“Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.”
Source: Dicta and Contradicta
“Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.”
Source: Sometimes a Great Notion
“Aneu amb compte amb els qui malparlen de Descartes! Acabaran fent-vos propaganda de Pascal, i ja sabeu això que vol dir.”
Source: Consells, proverbis i insolències
“Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness.”
“Anfiteatro" llaman aquí a la morgue, y no hay taxista en Medellín ni cristiano que no sepa dónde está porque aquí los vivos sabemos muy bien ádonde tenemos que ir a buscar los muertos.”
Source: La virgen de los sicarios
“Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff. And I just talked to a lot of my friends - who [was] their first, particularly same-sex, first situation. That was fascinating to me - trying to learn what that was in a certain period of time. Certain age. The secrecy involved in it. All those things.”
“Ang dalagang nagpopormal sa kangyang kalagayan,
Hindi pagpapahamakan, ninum angwalang pitagan.
A woman who is dignified in her ways is respected ever by the irreverent.
Filipino proverb”
Source: Nā Wahine: Hawaiian Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes Celebrating Women in Hawai'i
“Ang great love mo, hindi mo makakatuluyan. Ang makakatuluyan mo ay yung correct love.”
Source: Para Kay B
“Ang isang paraan para magsimula ay sa pamamagitan ng pagtatanong kung ano ang will ng Diyos hindi sa paroroonang lugar o darating na panahon, kundi dito at ngayon.”
Source: What Is God's Will for My Life?
“Ang karamihan nang tao ay walang pakialam, ang karamihan ng politiko ay walang utak, at yung ibang may utak... walang puso.”
Source: Bakit Baliktad Magbasa Ng Libro Ang Mga Pilipino?
“Ang Lee just allowed me to make what we would call mistakes and had no judgment of them. He also empowered me. You know, he's like, "You're my actor. I chose you. Whatever you do is right." Right? "I made the decision, I'm complicit in choosing you. And I went through everything I could to choose you, so I feel good and whatever you're going to do I'm going to give you this space." And so it was very empowering.”
“Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.”
“Ang Lee's been nominated for best director for "Life of Pi," which is what I'm going to call the six weeks after I take this dress off.”
“Ang liit at laki ay nasa isip lang. Bakit kami nina Bubuyog at Gagamba, may naipundar din kami kahit papano. Nasa pagsisikap lang 'yan ng tao!”
Source: Alamat ng Gubat
“Ang magagandang desisyon ay nagmula sa karanasan at ang karanasan ay nagmumula sa hindi magagandang desisyon, at Sa bawat PagKakaMali natin dun naman tayo Natututo.”
“Ang masamang balita:
sa Antipolo pa rin ang Antipolo
Ang mabuting balita: habang-buhay na tayo nandito”
Source: Sa Antipolo Pa Rin Ang Antipolo
“Ang nasyonalismo ay terorismo.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Ang pag-develop sa kakayahan na magabayan ng Diyos ay mas tungkol sa pagiging consistent na pagsunod, kaysa sa nakakabilib na discernment.”
Source: What Is God's Will for My Life?
“Ang pag-ibig ay tila isa ring pananakop at ang mangingibig, isang dakilang mananakop; nais mo ng kasagutan at katubusan sa sarili mong pag-iisa, sa sarili mong kahinaan, sa mga katanungang hindi matapus-tapos ni matukoy sa simula. Ang trahedya ng pag-ibig ay kung sakaling makamtan mo na ang iniibig, hindi mo na alam kung ano ang gagawin mo sa kanya na nasa iyong mga kamay, at ayaw mo naman siyang pakawalan dahil hindi mo na makita ang pagkakaiba ng lumaya at umibig. Inaakala mo na kasi na ikaw at siya ay iisa, tinanggap mo na nang walang pagdududa na siya na ang iyong kahinaan o pinagmumulan ng lakas at ikaw ang kanyang kahinaan at pinagmumulan din ng lakas. At inaakala mo na ang nakaraan at bukas niya ay hawak mo sa iyong mga palad—at ganoon din siya sa iyo. Na ikaw, ikaw palagi ang nasa kanyang nakaraan. Na ang umibig ay ang tanging dakila at banal sa buhay. Malupit
na pananakop ang umibig kaya ko ito kinatatakutan.”
Source: Colon
“Ang pag-ibig pala ay hindi makikita sa sweet na eksena, sa mahihigpit na yakapan, o sa maiinit na kissing scene. Minsan ang tunay na pagmamahal ay naroon sa kagustuhan mo na palayain ang taong mahal mo para sa ikaliligaya nito at ng mga tao sa paligid mo, maging sariling kaligayahan mo man ang maging kapalit.”
Source: Loving Third