O Quotes
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“Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.”
Source: Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
“Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we will be judged”
Source: The Library at Night
“Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.”
“Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative.”
“Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now, if you get on an airplane [to the U.S.] and claim asylum...when you arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, they will say to you, 'OK, we'll give you a hearing on whether you deserve asylum. Show up in a year.' And two-thirds of the people never show up.”
“Our botanist plucked the flowers and named them after himself. And my new husband swept aside all the offerings to the dead and set up his telescope on the altar, because the offering was clear of trees and he wanted the best vantage into the skies. When one of the islanders protested, and tried to push George away, Captain Lateshaw had the man flogged. Because order had to be maintained”
Source: The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics
“Our boundaries define our personal space - and we need to be sovereign there in order to be able to step into our full power and potential.”
“Our boundless optimism is what keeps us, self-starters alive, but there is a thin line between being an optimist and being delusional.”
Source: Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain
“Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely”
“Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.”
“Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the environment. So what we have here is an enormously complex notion of both consciousness and unconsciousness. That's why these models get very difficult, because you can't reduce our subjective and intersubjective experience to neural reductions.”
“Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own safe space, one in which she can confront threats, fears, and dangers, but always come through whole. Play offers a child a natural way to manage feared separations or abandonment, rendering them instead opportunities for mastery and self-discovery.”
“Our brain is almost the same as the chimps', but we have language, we have electronic communications, we've put people on the moon - we are immensely more intelligent. And yet: how come the being with the most extraordinary intellect ever is destroying its only planet?”
“Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.”
“Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.”
“Our brain is the factory of the emotions”
“Our brain is therefore not simply passively subjected to sensory inputs. From the get-go, it already possesses a set of abstract hypotheses, an accumulated wisdom that emerged through the sift of Darwinian evolution and which it now projects onto the outside world. Not all scientists agree with this idea, but I consider it a central point: the naive empiricist philosophy underlying many of today's artificial neural networks is wrong. It is simply not true that we are born with completely disorganized circuits devoid of any knowledge, which later receive the imprint of their environment. Learning, in man and machine, always starts from a set of a priori hypotheses, which are projected onto the incoming data, and from which the system selects those that are best suited to the current environment. As Jean-Pierre Changeux stated in his best-selling book Neuronal Man (1985), “To learn is to eliminate.”
Source: How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
“Our brain needs comfort. When you irritate it, you cannot think.”
“Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.”
“Our brains adjust to both harmony and disagreement. We unconsciously try to please others, we also want to agree with others. Why? Humans value social conformity so much that they'll change their own responses - even their perceptions - to align with the group, even when the group is blatantly wrong. We are wired to conform. Your brain would rather not deal with conflict and debate. It would much prefer to lounge in the comfort of like-mindedness. The instinct for agreement has a huge impact in our lives. It is one of the reasons why in a culture of complaint, we join the fray.”
Source: Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
“Our brains are belief engines, not truth engines.”
Source: SIMPLIFY: A high performance playbook to win the real game
“our brains are continuously yearning for the arrival of a co-organizing other”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“Our brains are fairly powerful, but our conscious minds are still extremely limited in their ability to hold onto multiple simultaneous thoughts”
“Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same.”
“Our brains are hardwired for stories. That’s why information presented in a recognizable archetype
form, like a quest narrative, is more memorable and emotionally resonant.”
Source: Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that turn Culture into Competitive Advantage
“Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.”
“Our brains are like computers; it's our responsibility to programme them well, daily, and remove the viruses.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.”
Source: Self-consciousness: memoirs
“Our brains are not cameras capturing an objective world. Instead, the brain is more like an artist or a storyteller - taking in fragments of sensory data and crafting a narrative of what it believes to be out there.”
Source: The Council of Gods
“Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast.”
“Our brains are our command centers.
Every thought and belief pattern we hold to be true within our core is accepted and implemented by our bodies.”
“Our brains are our greatest treasures that we have in our life. But it takes a lifetime to realize this.”
“Our brains are sending sparks in different directions and sometimes they end up in the wrong place, but sometimes they end up in incredible places.”
Source: How to Be Autistic
“Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception. There is no reason why we should not rebel in a large way too.”
Source: The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition
“Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.”
Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell
“Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals at all. We are the result of thousands of years of human experience, human endeavor and struggle.”
Source: The Pocket Krishnamurti
“Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second.”
“Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.”
“Our brains are wired to interpret shapes as faces and bodies. That's why people see the Virgin Mary in the clouds or even in cheese sandwiches. It's your cytoplasm, not some strange ectoplasm.”
“Our brains contain one hundred billion nerve cells (neurons). Each neuron makes links with ten thousand other neurons to form an incredible three dimensional grid. This grid therefore contains a thousand trillion connections - that's 1,000,000,000,000,000 (a quadrillion). It's hard to imagine this, so let's visualise each connection as a disc that's 1mm thick. Stack up the quadrillion discs on top of each other and they will reach the sun (which is ninety-three million miles from the earth) and back, three times over.”
Source: The Epigenetics Revolution
“Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.”
Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
“Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity”
“Our brains do not generate consciousness since our minds are embedded into the larger consciousness system. We humans are deep down information technology running on genetic, neural and societal codes. Self-transcendence from a bio-human or cyberhuman into a higher-dimensional info-being might be closer than you think.”
Source: The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution
“Our brains do not have to be fixed, they can be plastic.”
“Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms.”
“Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.”
“Our brains, like rat brains, are wired so that food and sex give us little bursts of dopamine, the neurotransmitter that is the brains's way of making un enjoy the activities that are good for the survival of our genes.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do.”
“Our brains needed to be able to do more than simply create models of the world. The power of imagination took root in the brains of our ancestors because it helped them predict uncertain futures.”
Source: The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
“Our brains seem to have the power to do one or the other - record and remember every detail, or chunk it to higher level concepts and forget the details. We can't seem to do both. The fact that you could not fly over a city and remember every detail is not something to worry about.”