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“Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named, for 'chaos' implies randomness. Chaos in the technical sense is not random at all. It is completely determined, but it depends hugely, in strangely hard-to-predict ways, on tiny differences in initial conditions.”
Source: Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
“Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.”
“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
Source: The Education of Henry Adams
“Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.”
“Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved.”
“Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.”
Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
“Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.”
“chaos: it has no plural.”
Source: The death of Artemio Cruz
“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”
“Chaotic good ones place a high value on free will: they always intend to do the right thing, even if their methods are haphazard and generally out of sync with the rest of society.”
Source: Chaotic Good
“Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.”
“Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.”
“Chaotic times are not the period to abandon rational thinking but just another reason to cherish its existence.”
“Chaotic words are but the mind's take on its rap of thoughts.”
“Chaparro se prometera que aquela mulher não iria enlouquecê-lo de novo, porque ele estava bem assim, e porque não precisava de uma nova e brutal desilusão, de uma nova insônia, de um novo vazio no estomâgo. Foi por isso que lhe disse “como vai, doutora?, quanto tempo”, embora notasse que ela ficava meio sem graça, porque vinha adiantando a face para dar um beijo nele e se atrapalhava como se atrapalha alguém que vem nos tratar por você e topa com uma parede de quatro metros, sem fissuras, à qual convém responder “bem, e o senhor?, é verdade, quanto tempo”. E por isso, porque a situação o aborreceu, angustiou ou entristeceu — ou lhe produziu todos esses sentimentos —, Chaparro balbuciou a desculpa de que havia deixado um monte de trabalho inacabado sobre sua escrivaninha e saiu disparado. Retirou-se em velocidade suficiente para escapar ao perfume que ela sempre usara, mas não para ficar a salvo de escutar as corriqueiras respostas às corriqueiras perguntas de como vai sua família, Irene, bem, graças a Deus as meninas bem, seu marido, meu marido bem, trabalhando muito e de saúde muito bem; raios partam também a ele, o desgraçado filho de mil putas, com perdão da palavra porque o estúpido não tem culpa de ter se casado com ela mas dá no mesmo, com que direito ela fez isso a ele, que estava tão bem sozinho ou efemeramente acompanhado.”
Source: El Secreto de Sus Ojos
“Chapel services on race day have a calming effect. It's a nice time for us to worship and try to get the message and hear some music and have a little fellowship together before we get to racing.”
“Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.”
“Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.”
Source: Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children
“Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities.”
“Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.”
“Chaplin is no businessman”
“Chaplin left the Keystone studios on a Saturday night in December after cutting his last film, without bidding farewell to any of his erstwhile colleagues; he spent Sunday in his room at the Los Angeles Athletic Club and on the following day he turned up for work at the Essanay Studios in Niles, California. Of course, everyone at Keystone knew about his imminent departure, but he could not bring himself to make a speech or shake hands. He just left. Sennett said later that 'as for Charles Spencer Chaplin, I am not at all sure that we know him'. He had never really been part of the team; he would never become a member of any group.”
Source: Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life
“Chaplin made me laugh and cry without saying a word. I had an instinct. I was touched by the soul of Chaplin - Mime is not an imitator but a creator.”
“Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.”
Source: Self-portrait
“Chapter 1: As the Old Saying Goes, Hindsight Is Not 20/20 (page 29)
Hindsight bias
The tendency to believe an event, after it occurs, was predictable or inevitable. It's also been referred to as "knew-it-all-along" thinking or "creeping determinism.”
Source: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
“Chapter 1: As the Old Saying Goes, Hindsight Is Not 20/20 (page 38)
Hindsight bias vaccine
As you were using the Knowledge Tracker, it may have occurred to you that it would be a good idea to journal the "stuff you knew before the decision" while you are in the process of making the decision.
It can be hard to accurately recall what you knew before the fact once you already know the outcome. Journaling gives you something concrete to refer back to.
Writing down the key facts informing your decision also acts like a vaccine against hindsight bias. Thinking about what you know at the time of the decision in this more deliberative way creates a clearer time stamp, preventing memory creep before it happens.
Later in this book we'll take a deep dive into how to better memorialize decisions.”
Source: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
“Chapter 1: Change your Conception of Dreaming (page 16)
Instead, it has been from looking at long-term patterns that I have benefited the most from my dreams.”
Source: Dream Patterns: Revealing the Hidden Patterns of Our Waking Lives
“Chapter 1: Change your Conception of Dreaming (page 19)
3. The patterns in your dreams reflect patterns in your waking life. Seeing and understanding those patterns enables you to take control of them and live more skillfully.”
Source: Dream Patterns: Revealing the Hidden Patterns of Our Waking Lives
“Chapter 1: Genesis 37
1 And Ya'akov (Jacob) sat in the land of the residence of his father in the land of K'na'an (Canaan). 2 These are the [descendents in the] genealogy of Ya'akov (Jacob): Yosef (Joseph) [was] seventeen years old, [he] would shepherd with his brothers among the flock [of animals], and he [was merely] a youth with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah (the women of his father), and Yosef (Joseph) brought their slander – [it was] evil – to their father”
Source: Yosef: The Story of Joseph
“Chapter 1: Genesis 37
12 And [they] went – his brothers – to shepherd the flock of their father in Shechem. 13 And Israel said to Yosef (Joseph), “Are not your brothers shepherding in Shechem? Go and [I] will send you to them.” And [he] said to him, “Behold: [here] I [am]!”
Source: Yosef: The Story of Joseph
“Chapter 1: Genesis 37
14 And [he] said to him, “Go, please, see [to] the peace of your brothers, and [to] the peace of the flock, and return to me a word, and [he] sent him from the valley of Ḥevron (Hebron), and [he] came to Shechem. 15 And a man found him, and behold: [He was] mistakenly [wandering] in the field, and [he] asked him – the man – saying, “What [do you] request [to find]?”
16 And [he] said, “My brothers I request [to find] – Say, please, to me: Where [are] they shepherding?”
17 And [he] said – the man – “[They] journeyed from this [place] because [I] heard [them] saying, '[We] will go to Dothan.'” And [he] went – Yosef (Joseph) – after his brothers, and [he] found them in Dothan.”
Source: Yosef: The Story of Joseph
“Chapter 1: Genesis 37
18 And [they] saw him from afar, and before [he] came close to them [they] plotted [against] him to put him to death. 19 And [they] said – [each] man to his brothers – “Behold: The possessor of the dreams – this one comes! 20 And now: Come and [let's] kill him, and [we] will cast him in[to] one of the ground-pits, and [we] will say, 'An evil living [creature] ate him', and [we] will see what will be [of] his dreams!”
Source: Yosef: The Story of Joseph
“Chapter 1: Genesis 37
21 And Reuven (Reuben) heard and [he] saved him from their hand, and [he] said, “[We] will not hit him [killing his] soul!” 22 And [he] said to them – Reuven (Reuben) – “Don't spill blood! Cast him to this ground-pit that [is] in the desert, and a hand do not send [forth] against him!” in order [to] save him from their hand [in order] to return him to his father.”
Source: Yosef: The Story of Joseph
“Chapter 1: Genesis 37
23 And [it] was when Yosef (Joseph) came to his brothers, and [they] stripped Yosef (Joseph) [of] his tunic – the striped tunic – that [was] upon him. 24 And [they] took him, and [they] cast him to the ground-pit, and the ground-pit [was] empty – there [was] not within it water.”
Source: Yosef: The Story of Joseph
“Chapter 1: Genesis 37
25 And [they] sat to eat bread, and [they] lifted [up] their eyes, and [they] saw, and behold: A caravan of Ishmaelites [was] coming from Gil'ad and their camels bearing spices, and balsam, and myrrh going to bring down to Mitzraim (Egypt). 26 And Yehudah (Judah) said to his brothers, “What gain [is there] that [we] will kill our brother and [by our] covering [up] his blood? 27 Come, and [let's] sell him to the Ishmaelites, and our hand [let] not be [up]on him because [he is] our brother – our flesh [and blood] he [is].” And [they] heard – his brothers – [and heeded].”
Source: Yosef: The Story of Joseph
“Chapter 1: Genesis 37
28 And [they] passed – Midianite people (merchants) – and [they] pulled, and [they] raised Yosef (Joseph) from the ground-pit, and [they] sold Yosef (Joseph) to the Ishmaelites for twenty [pieces of] silver, and [they] brought Yosef (Joseph) to Mitzraim (Egypt). 29 And [he] returned – Reuven (Reuben) – to the ground-pit, and behold: There [was] no Yosef (Joseph) in the ground-pit, and [he] tore his clothes.
30 And [he] returned to his brothers, and [he] said, “The child [is] not there! And I – where do I go?!” 31 And [they] took the tunic of Yosef (Joseph), and [they] slaughtered a hairy-goat, and [they] dipped the tunic in the blood.”
Source: Yosef: The Story of Joseph
“Chapter 1: Genesis 37
3 And Israel loved Yosef (Joseph) [most] from all his sons because a son of his old-age he [was] to him, and [he] made for him a striped tunic. 4 And [they] saw – his brothers – that their father loved him [most] from all his brothers, and [they] hated him, and [they] could not speak [of] him for peace.”
Source: Yosef: The Story of Joseph
“Chapter 1: Genesis 37
5 And Yosef (Joseph) dreamt a dream, and [he] said [the dream] to his brothers, and [they] increased more [to] hate him. 6 And [he] said to them, “Hear, please, this dream that [I] dreamt. 7 And behold: We [were] binding sheaves in the field, and behold: My sheaf arose and also [was] positioned, and behold: Your sheaves surrounded [mine] and prostrated [themselves] to my sheaf.”
8 And [they] said to him – his brothers – “Will [you most assuredly] reign over us? Will [you] rule over us?” And [they] increased more [to] hate him over his dreams and over his words.”
Source: Yosef: The Story of Joseph
“Chapter 1: Genesis 37
9 And [he] dreamt again – a different dream – and [he] told it to his brothers, and [he] said, “Behold: [I] dreamt a dream again, and behold: The Sun and the Moon, and eleven stars [were] prostrating [themselves] to me. 10 And [he] told [the dream] to his father and to his brothers, and [he] rebuked him – his father – and [he] said to him, “What [is] this dream that [you] dreamt? Will [we most assuredly] come – I, and your mother, and your brothers – to prostrate [ourselves] to you to the ground?” 11 And [they were] jealous of him – his brothers – and his father guarded the matter [in his heart].”
Source: Yosef: The Story of Joseph
“Chapter 1.
He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion...no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yeah. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.'
Uh, no let me start this over.
'Chapter 1.
He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else. He thrived on the hustle bustle of the crowds and the traffic. To him, New York meant beautiful women and street-smart guys who seemed to know all the angles...'.
Ah, corny, too corny for my taste. Can we ... can we try and make it more profound?
'Chapter 1.
He adored New York City. For him, it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. The same lack of individual integrity that caused so many people to take the easy way out was rapidly turning the town of his dreams in...'
No, that's going to be too preachy. I mean, you know, let's face it, I want to sell some books here.
'Chapter 1.
He adored New York City, although to him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. How hard it was to exist in a society desensitized by drugs, loud music, television, crime, garbage...'
Too angry, I don't want to be angry.
'Chapter 1.
He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat.'
I love this.
'New York was his town, and it always would be.”
Source: Manhattan
“CHAPTER 1:
My old car battery, dead as a turd, rode in the trunk of Dreema’s sedan. She’d told me to take it. I felt embarrassed to drive it, but I had no other way to pick up a new car battery.”
Source: Traffic
“Chapter 1: Resulting (page 20)
Resulting makes us lack compassion for ourselves and others.
When someone has a bad outcome in their life, we judge their decision-making as poor because of resulting. That makes it easy to blame them for the way things turned out. No need to have compassion because the outcome was their fault.
And it's not just other people. We lack self-compassion when we make these connections in our own lives. We beat ourselves up when things don't work out the way we had hoped.
For good outcomes, we're not doing anyone a service by potentially overlooking their mistakes simply because it worked out. We're definitely hurting ourselves, not just in learning, but in assessing our self-worth based on how things turned out rather than on whether we made a good decision under the circumstances.”
Source: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
“Chapter 1: Resulting (page 3)
Resulting
A mental shortcut in which we use the quality of an outcome to figure out the quality of a decision.”
Source: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
“Chapter 1: Resulting (page 3)
Resulting
A mental shortuct in which we use the quality of an outcome to figure out the quality of a decision.”
Source: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
“Chapter 10: The Big Terrible Thing (page 229)
There is a reason I'm still here. And figuring out why is the task that has been put in front of me.”
Source: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“Chapter 11: Batman (page 249)
Life keeps moving; each day is an opportunity, now, a chance for wonder and hope and work and forward motion.”
Source: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“Chapter 11: Batman (page 249)
Love and courage, man—the two most important things. I don't move forward with fear anymore—I move forward with curiosity.”
Source: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“Chapter 2: As the Old Saying Goes, Hindsight Is Not 20/20 (page 38)
Hindsight bias vaccine
As you were using the Knowledge Tracker, it may have occurred to you that it would be a good idea to journal the "stuff you knew before the decision" while you are in the process of making the decision.
It can be hard to accurately recall what you knew before the fact once you already know the outcome. Journaling gives you something concrete to refer back to.
Writing down the key facts informing your decision also acts like a vaccine against hindsight bias. Thinking about what you know at the time of the decision in this more deliberative way creates a clearer time stamp, preventing memory creep before it happens.
Later in this book we'll take a deep dive into how to better memorialize decisions.”
Source: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
“CHAPTER 2: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
ALDO THE APACHE
My name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I'm putting together a special team, and I need me 8 soldiers. 8 Jewish-American soldiers.
Now, y'all might've heard rumors about the armada happening soon. Well, we'll be leaving a little earlier. We're gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. And once we're in enemy territory, as a bushwhackin' guerrilla army, we're gonna be doin' one thing and one thing only... killin' Nazis.
Now, I don't know about y'all, but I sure as hell didn't come down from the goddamn Smoky Mountains, cross 5,000 miles of water, fight my way through half of Sicily and jump out of a fuckin' air-o-plane to teach the Nazis lessons in humanity. Nazi ain't got no humanity. They're the foot soldiers of a Jew-hatin', mass murderin' maniac and they need to be destroyed. That's why any and every every son of a bitch we find wearin' a Nazi uniform, they're gonna die.
Now, I'm the direct descendant of the mountain man Jim Bridger. That means I got a little Injun in me. And our battle plan will be that of an Apache resistance.
We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty they will know who we are.
And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us.
And the German won't not be able to help themselves but to imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives.
And the German will be sickened by us, and the German will talk about us, and the German will fear us.
And when the German closes their eyes at night and they're tortured by their subconscious for the evil they have done, it will be with thoughts of us they are tortured with.
Sooounds good?”
“Chapter 2: The Dream Journal (page 21)
But, more importantly, it is essential to have a journal so that you can look back over your dreams months or even years later to look for patterns and meaning.”
Source: Dream Patterns: Revealing the Hidden Patterns of Our Waking Lives