S Quotes
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“Special was not the same as real.”
Source: Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery
“Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own”
“Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Special-needs rescues and older rescues have always had a close place in my heart, because those are the ones that tend to get looked over. That is why I love how North Shore Animal League America has their shelter set up.”
“Specialisation is for insects!”
“Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.”
“Specialists and generalists are both valuable and necessary; it just depends on the context.”
Source: How to Be Everything
“Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.”
“Specialists are the animals that remind us what an incredible fluke it is that our world exists at all; that the temperature is what it is, that the air we breathe is 21 percent oxygen. They remind us how much damage even the smallest changes to that system can cause and they show us how badly we're screwing things up.”
Source: Save the Humans
“Specialists can never practice their specialties too much. The danger is in not practicing enough. Make that mistake, and soon you may not be in the specialty business anymore.”
“Specialists in information technology are the new lawyers. Long ago, lawyers realized that they could make themselves culturally essential if they made the vernacular of contracts too complex for anyone to understand except themselves. They made the language of contracts unreadable on purpose. (Easy example: I can write a book, and my editor can edit a book . . . but neither one of us can read and understand the contract that allows those things to happen.) IT workers became similarly unstoppable the moment they realized virtually every machine powering the modern world is too complicated for the average person to fix or calibrate. And they know this. This is what makes an IT guy different from you. He might make less money, he might have less social prestige, and people might look at him in the cafeteria like he’s a nitpick—but he can act however he wants. He can be nice, but only if he feels like it. He can ignore the company dress code. He can lie for no reason whatsoever (because how would anyone understand what he’s lying about). He can smoke weed at lunch, because he’ll still understand your iMac better than you. It doesn’t matter how he behaves: The IT department dominates technology, and technology dominates the rest of us. And this state of being creates a new kind of personality. It creates someone like Kim Dotcom, a man who’s essentially an IT guy for the entire planet.”
Source: I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains
“Specialists will continue to lose not because of automation, but because of the imprisonment of industrial isolation.
Leaders and innovators who stay relevant see the interconnectedness of a broad use of skillsets that specialists can’t see and use creativity to solve problems in times of complexity.”
“specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”
Source: The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
“Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.”
Source: Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland
“Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.”
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
“Specialization, concentration and consistency is the key to outstanding performance... Love your zone!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Specialization is for insects.”
“Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.”
“Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.”
“Specialization is the great evil of civilization.”
“Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.”
Source: The Political Economy of International Relations
“specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.”
“Specialize in your particular field and try to know more about it than anyone else.”
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938
“Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.”
“Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a Darwinian individual of the appropriate scale. If a change in a local population does not gain such protection, it becomes-to borrow Dawkins's metaphor at a macroevolutionary scale-a transient duststorm in the desert of time, a passing cloud without borders, integrity, or even the capacity to act as a unit of selection, in the panorama of life's phylogeny.”
Source: Punctuated Equilibrium
“Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.”
Source: The Life and Writings of ...
“Species are being wiped out every day. Do we want to live with this or don't we? That is really our choice. And I think that human beings, by nature, want to preserve themselves. But right now, we're so preoccupied by other stuff, and we're not addressing the issues, which are our priorities.”
“Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.”
“Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.”
“Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.”
“Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving.”
Source: The Mote in God's Eye
“Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.”
“Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill. Who cares if millions of mice and rats are vivisected? They're 'only rodents'. What does it matter if billions of chickens live in misery until they die in pain and fear? They're 'just chickens'. They aren't human, so they don't count. Victimizers lack empathy for their victims, but absence of empathy doesn't justify victimization, whether the victims are human or nonhuman.”
“Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.”
“Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect”
Source: Speciesism
“Specific emotions can serve as triggers to keep underachieving students focused on the journey to reverse their underachievement.”
“Specific knowledge is needed in every work, if we want to have success”
“Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.”
“Specific parts of you personality may be angry and are usually easily evoked. because these parts are dissociated, anger remains an emotion that is not integrated for you as a whole person. Even though individuals with dissociative disorder are responsible for their behavior, just like everyone else, regardless of which part may be acting, they may feel little control of these raging parts of themselves.
Some dissociative parts may avoid or even be phobic of anger. They may influence you as a whole person to avoid conflict with others at any cost or to avoid setting healthy boundaries out of fear of someone else’s anger; or they may urge you to withdraw from others almost completely.”
Source: Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
“Specific policy decisions would be absolutely necessary to promote the UK. It's not necessarily borrowing more or changing our current account status.”
“Specific protection must be granted to human rights defenders and whistleblowers who have in some contexts been accused of being unpatriotic, whereas they perform, in reality, a democratic service to their countries and to the enjoyment of human rights of their compatriots.”
“Specific reifications are variations on this general theme. Marriage, for instance, may be reified as an imitation of divine acts of creativity, as a universal mandate of natural laws, as the necessary consequences of biological or psychological forces, or, for that matter, as a functional imperative of the social system. What all these reifications have in common is their obfuscation of marriage as an ongoing human production. [...] Through reification, the world of institutions appears to merge with the world of nature.”
“Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities are found in atoms, elementary particles, genes, and DNA.”
Source: Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Approach
“Specifically, artists and the powerful have the ability to turn ordinary lives into dreams.”
“Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.”
“Specifically, I cherished a romantic impulse towards death, yet at the same time I
required a strictly classical body as its vehicle; a peculiar sense of destiny made me
believe that the reason why my romantic impulse towards death remained unfulfilled
in reality was the immensely simple fact that I lacked the necessary physical qualifications.
A powerful, tragic frame and sculpturesque muscles were indispensable in
a romantically noble death. Any confrontation between weak, flabby flesh and death
seemed to me absurdly inappropriate. Longing at eighteen for an early demise, I felt
myself unfitted for it. I lacked, in short, the muscles suitable for a dramatic death.
And it deeply offended my romantic pride that it should be this unsuitability that
had permitted me to survive the war.”
Source: Sun & Steel
“Specifically in reference to Iran, Donald Trump will not be able to renegotiate the nuclear arms pact. His attempt to do so will alienate all the European powers involved and will cost a number of US companies some very lucrative contracts. It is a losing proposition for him and for the US. Much more so than for Iran, who will turn more and more to Russia and China as trading partners.”
“Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.”
“Specifically, obligate bipedalism has long been suspected to be an important aetiological factor for acquired spinal diseases that afflict our species because of the types of stresses it puts on our spines.”
Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach