O Quotes
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“Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.”
“Orchestrating a diversified team can indeed enhance the higher level of harmony.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable from it in the mind of its creator and native to it from the hour of its birth.”
“Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.”
“Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings”
“Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had designed a beautiful machine to reflect his wisdom and power, surely he would not have used a collection of parts generally fashioned for other purposes. Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. Thus, they must have evolved from ordinary flowers.”
Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.”
Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind.”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“Ord ultimately concludes that human civilization has a good chance to survive even at double that temperature rise. "I looked at these models up to about 20 degrees of warming, and it still seems like there would be substantial habitable areas," he said. "But, it's something where it'd be very bad, just to be clear to the audience," Ord hastened to add.
Climate science suggests that "very bad" is a gross understatement. "A temperature rise of 10 degrees [Celsius] would be a mass extinction event in the long term," says Luke Kemp, a researcher at the University of Cambridge and an expert on climate-induced civilizational collapse.”
Source: More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
“Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.”
“Ordeals give you opportunities to look more deeply into your real world.”
“Orden har så stor innebörd om man har sett och levt med verkligheten de beskriver, och de är så tomma om man inte har gjort det.”
Source: Everything Is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia
“Orden har så stor innebörd om man har sett och levt mes verkligheten de beskriver, och de är så tomma om man inte har gjort det.”
Source: Everything Is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia
“Order (self-organizat ion): Set aside time to plan how you will spend your time. Think about what’s most important. Then do those things first.”
“Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.”
Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“Order - the accurate arrangement of things - increases productivity. Productivity decides rewards.”
“Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.”
Source: Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.”
“Order and creativity are complementary.”
“Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.”
Source: Speaker for the Dead
“Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.”
“Order and good government, and along with them the liberty and security of individuals, were in this manner established in cities, at a time when the occupiers of land in the country, were exposed to every sort of violence. But men in this defenceless state naturally content themselves with their necessary subsistence; because, to acquire more, might only tempt the injustice of their oppressors. On the contrary, when they are secure of enjoying the fruits of their industry, they naturally exert it to better their condition, and to acquire not only the necessaries, but the conveniencies and elegancies of life.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.”
Source: The Grammar of Science
“Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.”
Source: The Magic Mountain
“Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject”
“Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.”
“Order and system are nobler things than power.”
Source: The seven lamps of architecture
“Order anything you like, from croissants to caviar,” he proudly said”
Source: The Voyeur's Yacht
“Order arise from chaos.”
“Order builds stability; chaos builds possibility.”
Source: Dopamine: The Silent Architect of Desire, Discipline, and Meaning
“Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. In the 17th century, Descartes applied this insight to cosmology, and long before Darwin presented his more rigorous ideas about variation and selection, people began to speculate more openly about the origins of life and the species in Epicurean terms.”
“Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.”
Source: Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists
“Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only 'order' that governments have ever maintained.”
Source: Anarchism and Other Essays
“Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society.”
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“Order doesn't come by itself.”
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“Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Order gives birth to constants, and constants yield expectations. When two people have unprotected sex and both are fertile, and the sperm reaches the egg, the woman gets pregnant and a baby is born. There is an order to things and thus, a reasonable expectation can be made. That’s what two decades of school teach you. Do things a certain way, and you’ll get the results you want.”
She gulped her beer and sighed. “But life is different. It doesn’t work that way. And dating is the stupidest mechanism of life.”
“Why is it the stupidest?”
“Because the rules are all fucked up. You do one thing, supposedly the ‘right’ thing, and you get a different result, which is usually no result.”
Source: Karinderya Love Songs
“Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.”
“Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.”
Source: Spontaneous Activity in Education
“Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.”
“Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wings, teaching simplicity to sing.”
“Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.”
Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
“Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.”
Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
“Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.”
Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
“Order is a slippery thing: it's in the eyes of the beholder and the judgments of the powerful. Safety is clearer: it's freedom from violence and intrusion.”
Source: A Colony in a Nation
“Order is heaven's first law.”
“Order is heaven's first law. Order is earth's first law, too.”
“Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.”
Source: The Major Works