I Quotes
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“In English we say: when in Rome, do as the Romans do. In Naskarian we say: when on Earth, do as a Human should.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.”
“In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.”
“In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable.”
“In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.”
Source: Okay for Now
“In English, you can find writers with a wonderful sense of humor, like Oscar Wilde. But in the French language, this is very special, and de Sade is one of the very brave writers with a sense of humor. But most people don't understand that. When they read de Sade, they take it seriously. They say, "Oh, what an awful man!" He is really a very unknown writer.”
“In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery. ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy.”
Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement
“In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.”
“In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets.”
“In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.”
“In entertainment, the technology began giving us greater choice and easier switching before almost any other area. The studios became much more dependent on the stars, not just star actors and directors but also star technicians, star cinematographers. It's a very important evolution in terms of understanding why people are working the way they're working.”
“In entirely unrelated news, there's a new proposal to mandate coverage for gay infertility. The problem is that gay infertility is just biology. Two men and two women are not infertile. They're just not capable of impregnating each other. This isn't a medical problem. It's a mental problem.”
“In entirety, valentine is a FUCKING DAY, rather than the sanctity of its literal meaning.”
“In entrepreneurial finance, the asymmetry between what needs to be backed and what actually gets financed—often driven by purely speculative expectations—is truly remarkable.
Case in point: CB Insights has been doing an admirable job publishing its "mortality reports," analyzing why some of the most promising and heavily vetted startups fail. And for years, the number one reason for failure among VC-backed startups has remained the same:
There was no market need.”
Source: Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain
“In entrepreneurship, you decide to give up your day job at the point where either (A) the hobby/new business is at least making some form of ends meet, or (B) you feel that you need to dedicate yourself for a certain amount of time to it and give yourself the last hoorah.”
“In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.”
“In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.”
Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
“In episode 45 of Shokugeki No Soma, the food clubs are under fire. They must throw out their innovations and practices in order to adhere to the new director's food manual. Everyone must only make a certain type of dish and made in a specific way. Students disassociating from this manual will be expelled.
Innovation was frowned upon while classism had taken its hold. In order to save his dorm, protagonist Soma Yukihira challenged Chef Eizan "The Alchemist" seat number seven in the Council of Ten to a food war. With a board of judges willing to forgo tasting a dish because it uses ingredients not considered "top quality" or doesn't put the quality of an ingredient above its preparation, it goes completely against Soma Yukihira's style. Soma utilizes every day's cheap delights and elevating it into deliciousness. Chef Eizan presented Khao Man Gai, taking careful attention to not alter the chicken's natural flavors too much. One bite and every tongue squealed with bliss. Eizan presented a formidable classic that didn't stray too far from the books.
Season of the Underdog
Soma Yukihira was the underdog. The judges were prepared to discard his dish and name Soma defeated without taking a bite. Soma prepared a chicken wing gyoza with a rich ankake sauce. He removed the bones of the chicken and stuffed the cavity with ground pork, shiitake mushrooms, scallions and cabbage, then prepared a bone broth and used it to make the ankake sauce. From the jump, I was like oh shit, that's fire. Captivated by the scent, a judge took a bite. He was taken aback by the flavor! The delight. Soma Yukihira won the food war and saved his dorm.”
Source: The Best American Food Writing 2023: Eye-Opening Essays on Culture, Inequality, and Justice
“In episodic television you'll have a good guy who's on every week and that's his show! He's the regular on it, and you're not going to be "gooder" than he is; I mean, he's the guy who's got to solve your problem! So if you're playing a good guy, you have to have a problem, and he's going to solve it for you. And the only really strong dramatic part is the heavy, because the meaner and crueler and rottener you are, the better the good guy looks when he whips ya' at the end because he always is gonna whip ya! So, the best dramatic guest shot is the heavy.”
“In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.”
“In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene. That’s not wimpy—it’s powerful and productive.”
“In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child's separation.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other.”
“In error I find truth, in you I found a place; and in all of this, I found nothing but nothingness. Contentment in my own gain and movement without seeing your face. Doubt where I knew I was wrong. We grow to exceed in our own self worth and in error we find our greatest truths.”
“In esoteric traditions, such conceptual schemes are considered a function of conditioning, not an inherent part of what is. Nonduality abides no contrast or comparison, no distinction between this and that, and no sequence of before and after. Beneath the surface play of phenomena, there is a formless, undifferentiated realm invisible to the naked eye; devoid of all parts, there remains only the unceasing flow and energy of life. Any concept of the Divine, therefore, is misleading, as it stands in the way of the deepest insights into the nature of reality. "God" is a concept, and, as such, is considered a misguided attempt to capture the infinite in the finite--to limit that which is limitless. As Mariana Caplan points out, "it is our imagination of God that fails," not God who fails us. St. Augustine voiced the same insight sixteen hundred years ago when he said God was not what we imagine or think we understand.”
Source: Seeing, Knowing, Being: A Guide to Sacred Awakenings
“In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.”
“In essence, a blitz play in football is a microcosm of corporate governance principles. It showcases the importance of coordination in mind body and spirit, clear roles, strategic planning, risk management, and performance evaluation – all critical elements in ensuring a company's success and sustainability.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“In essence, all of our words evoke, develop, and bring forth our reality. We always have the power to choose our words and our reality.”
Source: Get a PhD in YOU: A Course in Miraculous Self-Discovery
“In essence, every single particle interaction replays the entirety of all possible cosmic events since the beginning of eternity, at low resolution, skipping some amount of the total infinite possible information in favor of showing a finite amount instead.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“In essence, everything and everyone is made up of the same universal energy: you, me, the chair I’m sitting on, the trees and birds I can see outside my window, the guy from Amazon that just dropped off a package at my door and the package he delivered. Everything is connected, everything is part of this universal life force, everything is made up of the same stuff.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“In essence, everything in the entire universe is ultimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate.”
Source: A Tale for the Time Being
“In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.”
Source: Killosophy
“In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else.”
“In essence, innovation is the use of something that is new and unique, and you are able to create its business value.”
Source: 100 Digital Rules
“In essence, joy is the quiet confidence that everything will work out right. The best part of being filled with joy is that it's contagious. Your joy overflows. You can't keep it to yourself. It spills over to touch other lives in such a marvelous way. People around you want to be in your company. You lift their spirits!”
Source: Harvest of Hope: Living Victoriously Through Adversity, A 50-Day Devotional
“In essence, leadership is the sense of calling to a higher purpose.”
Source: Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
“In essence, love makes no sense, In fact, there is more nonsense than sense in love.
Great philosophers - Socrates, Plato and Aristotle alike, could only ponder on this delicate and mystifying subject, and that was way before I graced this planet with my own messed up resonance of amour. Perhaps, in an effort to make sense out of nonsense, the meaning of love was lost in translation over time, or by the mere fact that, to this day there has ben no valid interpretation.”
“In essence, love raises the feeling of one being for another to such a pitch that the threatened loss of the beloved or the loss of his love is felt no less keenly than the threat of death. Hence love is based on a
desire to live in anguish in the presence of an object of such high worth that the heart cannot bear to contemplate losing it. The fever of the senses is not a desire to die. Nor is love the desire to lose but the desire to live in fear of possible loss, with the beloved holding the lover on the very threshold of a swoon. At that price alone can we feel the violence of rapture before the beloved.”
Source: Erotism: Death and Sensuality
“In essence, oversimplification tends to take a partial truth and make it all powerful.”
Source: More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality
“In essence, playing with the Tarot is a creativity exercise. It is right-brain medicine in an increasingly left-brain world.”
“In essence, the cohesive utilization of rapid learning principles, strategies, methods, and techniques results in a potent learning system. This system not only expedites the learning process but also assures efficiency, effectiveness, and enduring knowledge retention.”
“In essence the entire generation at the end of the nineteenth century bears in its soul that same reaction against the suffocatingly dead positivism which lay on hearts like a stone. It is quite possible that they will perish, that they will not succeed in accomplishing anything. But others will come and will carry on, all the same, their work, because this work is vital...
Symbols must naturally and effortlessly emerge out of the depth of reality. But if the author unnaturally invents them in order to express some idea or other, they will be transformed into dead allegories which arouse nothing other than repulsion like all that is dead.
("On The Reasons For The Decline And On The New Tendencies In Contemporary Literature")”
“In essence the journey to wisdom is a study of self,
The conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious self.”
“In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.”
“In essence, the role of a logistician is to efficiently allocate capital.”
“In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people.”
“In essence, use logic to guide your actions, but don't neglect the emotional undercurrents that drive people's behavior.”
“In essence, we are deeper than being; we are character, which contains the conscious forces of love, justice, kindness, faith, and forgiveness.”
Source: The Values Pursued Life: Excellence and Greatness from Within
“In essence, we are pushing off the difficult work into the future so we don't have to deal with our potential inadequacy.
I think that many people would rather live with the delusion that they're invulnerable than test their limits and discover that they actually have some.”
“In essence, we are self-reflective information patterns that momentarily assemble the universe’s atoms into consciousness.”
Source: Dismantled: A Theory of Broken Mindsets—A Blueprint of Infinite Futures