“Even if someone is competent, it's so damned easy to crucify him as long as he's only working on his father's account. So at the beginning I certainly wanted to prove myself to my father and the rest of society. That quickly turned into a greater challenge. My lifestyle hasn't changed as a result.” IfsLongWantedFatherEasyChallengesResultsGreaterChangedProveAccountsLifestyleCompetentProve Myself Author:Stelios Haji-Ioannou
“Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost - and the time to account for past sins is approaching.” KnowsHomeTodayPastPoliticalSocialSinEnvironmentChangedAccountsDrunkChickensComing HomePrimeBoxersSocial EnvironmentRoostTimes Are Changing Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches
“So, you could often say things are terrible and that accounts for what happened, or things are really bright, and that accounts for what happened. Often, the real explanation for what happened is much more subtle and interesting and involves maybe small shocks or what a couple people did on a Wednesday morning that changed the arc of history.” PeopleRealInterestingMorningHappenedChangedCoupleTerribleAccountsExplanationShockSubtleArcsWednesdayWednesday Morning Author:Cass Sunstein
“People make fun of cybersex, but it's really something to take into account: it is a drama, a split of the human being! The human being can now be changed into some kind of spectrum or ghost who has sex at a distance. That is really scary because what used to be the most intimate and the most important relationship to reality is being split. This is no simulation but the coexistence of two separate worlds.” PeopleWorldHumansKindTwoImportantRealityUsedFunSexHuman BeingsChangedDramaAccountsDistanceScaryGhostUsed To BeIntimateSplitsSpectrumCoexistenceSimulationReally ScaryImportant Relationships Author:Paul Virilio
“Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting.” ThinkingBusinessChangedAccountsPatternsFishesFinishedPlanningCountingTropicalTracking Author:Stephen King
“All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practical success. Where religion has opposed the findings of science, it has almost always had to retreat.” MayWholeSuccessScienceChangeChangedTheoryFindingsAccountsAcceptedPracticalsRetreatMoscowScientific Theory Author:Nevill Francis Mott
“More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.” WorldFoundCreativityChangedConsequenceAccountsMethodTestedRuts Author:Twyla Tharp
“As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.” WorldProblemScienceSocialChangeChangedAccountsSizeSocial Science Author:Jerome Ravetz