“People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.” PeopleMadeEnoughCausesCan DoRealizingNumbersMistakeCareersSuccessfulAccountsStartingProbabilityForecastsSuccessful Career Author:Alan Greenspan
“The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try and cover themselves with fig leaves. That seemed to me a perfect allegory of what happened in the 20th century with regard to literary modernism. Literary modernism grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself?...a lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller.” TryingPersonsDoeBookMomentsStoriesSeemsRealizingPerfectCasesHappenedCenturyGrewOrdinaryAccountsRegardCleverNakedAdamStoryteller20th CenturyGenesisModernismAdam And EveAllegoryFigsBook Of GenesisClever Person Author:Philip Pullman
“I never really took into account the number of homeless families. As a kid, we used to feed the hungry at my church every other Saturday, and one day this kid from my school was there. Somewhere between that moment of realization and appreciation for what my Dad sacrificed for us to have, and me becoming "Anthony Mackie" I lost it. This movie [Shelter] really made me realize that, and it was very humbling and very sickening to see that within myself.” MadeMomentsKidsSchoolUsedLostRealizingChurchNumbersBecomingDadOne DayAccountsMy DadAppreciationHungryRealizationThat MomentShelterHomelessSaturdayHumbling Author:Paul Bettany
“The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it.” ThinkingNeedsHumansDoeWholeMomentsRealizingConsciousnessFrontsObjectsFitAccountsStructureStereotypeHuman ConsciousnessGreat Moments Author:W. J. T. Mitchell
“It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts.” RealizingLowsAccountsIncomeSavingShockingSavingsLow IncomeSavings Accounts Author:Dan Ariely
“In your 20s, you're checking your bank account to make sure you're not broke. In your 30s, you're looking at yourself and realizing you're broken.” RealizingBrokenAccountsBrokeBank Accounts Author:Paul Rust
“He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts.” PeopleMadeI CanTogetherLyingBitsCan DoRealizingWonderHappenedAccountsWake UpHorribleDestroyedAwakeSatShockWakingMixturesWoven Author:Philip K. Dick
“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.” LastsNatureRealizingWealthMoneyEnvironmentCuttingAirTreeFoodLateRiversAccountsEnvironmentalCaughtFishesBreatheSicknessToo LatePollutionEcologyStewardshipMother NatureBank AccountsMoney Isn't Everything Author:Alanis Obomsawin