“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.” SometimesRealityPainBitsEnjoyPleasureAcceptingPiecesIllusionInvestingComplaintsCollide Book:Reflections on War and Death Source: Reflections on War and Death
“If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband ... you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss.” IfsLittlesFactsMightFatherBitsAcceptingHonestHusbandLittle BitHarmBossEmployingBad Husband Author:Tony Abbott
“There is a bit of a once a soap actor always a soap actor thing, but I do think people still recognise talent. If youre good at something, then people have no choice but to accept it.” PeopleIfsThinkingStillsChoicesActorsBitsAcceptingTalentSoapRecognise Author:Judi Shekoni
“You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.” LastsBitsAcceptingMissingMaterialsPreservesSurvivedFillingSupperFilling InLast Supper Author:David Chipperfield
“Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. So automatically you're getting closer to potentially divine sources of interest because it is abstract. It's one of the only ways that a film actor can express himself in the abstract and have audiences still go along for the ride. They don't contend it. They accept it, that they're going to go places that are a bit more of the imagination, a bit more out there, and that's more and more where I like to dance.” PeopleWayMindWellsStillsBigsFilmActorsAsksBitsInterestImaginationFictionAcceptingAudienceImpossibleDivineSourceRootsIntelligentScience FictionAbstractBig QuestionsAlong For The RideFilm ActorsGood Science Author:Nicolas Cage
“Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again.” PeopleTryingBitsWaterAcceptingModelsAccountsMaking MoneyWetBusiness Models Author:Bruce Schneier
“The Bible contains legendary, historical, and ethical contents. It is quite possible to consider them separately, and one doesn't have to accept the legends in order to get the ethics. Fundamentalists make a grave mistake to insist on the letter of the writings, because they drive away many who can't swallow the Adam-and-Eve bit.” WritingReligionOrderBitsMistakeAcceptingEthicsLettersHistoricalGravesEthicalLegendsAdamLegendaryAdam And Eve Book:Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters