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“I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence.”

Mean Gone Periods Globalization Obscurity Meaninglessness Coherence Intervening

Author:Robert Reich

“It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.”

“I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many losses, disruptions, and distractions, that the need for a sense of the ongoing is quite real. The long poem is very satisfying in offering the psyche a model of coherence.”

Thinking Needs Long Real Speak Loss Models Satisfying Distraction Offering Ongoing Continuity Disruption Coherence

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“To believe in explanations is good, because it means you may believe also that beneath the chaotic, mindless jumble of everything, beneath the horrible disjunction you feel at every moment between you and all you are not, there dwells in the universe a secret harmony, a coherence and rightness like a balanced equation that’s out of reach for now but some day will reveal itself in its entirety.”

Feels Believe May Mean Moments Universe Secret Harmony Horrible Explanation Balanced Equations Chaotic Mindless Coherence Entirety

Author:Paul Murray

“Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion for coherence, our judgment of it must always remain a qualitative, nonformal, tacit, personal judgment.”

Depends Judgment Conclusion Strict Reliance Criteria Validity Coherence Tacit Qualitative

Book:Meaning

Source: Meaning

“Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being that has achieved cross-level coherence within herself, and between herself and the people, challenges, and institutions around her. Happiness comes from between.”

People Humans States Feelings Challenges Human Beings Levels Crosses Institutions Shallow Coherence

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between form and values in our society, as in thinking about a city and building one.”

Thinking Shows Form Artist Values Cities Building Activity Our Society Coherence

Author:Olafur Eliasson

“In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.”

Want Art Body Reading Individual Process Sky Behavior Capture Offering Stable Shifting Coherence Characterization Skylines Art And Life

Author:Ben Lerner

“Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with patterns, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity.”

Answers Pleasure Findings Patterns Complexity Recognizing Multiplicity Coherence Vertigo

Author:Mary Catherine Bateson

“Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.”

Whole Order Sea Higher Chaos Islands Coherence

Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard

“I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human terms. The point of my writing is to touch upon the systematics of prayer and on how we arrive at a method of achieving spiritual coherence in our lives.”

Writing Trying Humans Spiritual Strong Term Prayer Our Lives Achieve Commitment Method Salvation Coherence

Author:Richard Grossman

“By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression.”

“The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.”

Reality Identity Scene Photograph Attributes Wholeness Favour Projection Refusal Coherence Plenitude

Author:Victor Burgin

“If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means that something has been won from reality.”

Ifs Mean Has Beens Enough Reality Understanding Powerful Obscure Coherence

Author:Luc Delahaye

“The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .”

Men Kind Soul Together Spiritual Hell He Man Contentment Coherence Clique

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust of my position is that Christian theology is a non-subject. It is empty. Vacuous. Devoid of coherence or content. I imagine that McGrath would join me in expressing disbelief in fairies, astrology and Thor's hammer. How would he respond if a fairyologist, astrologer or Viking accused him of ignorance of their respective subjects?”

“The least livable life is the one without coherence-nothing connects, nothing means anything. Stories make connections. They allow us to see our past, our present, and our future as interrelated and purposeful.... The stories we value most reassure us that life is worth the pain, that meaning is not an illusion, and that others share our experience with us.”

Mean Stories Pain Past Life Is Values Share Illusion Connections Our Future Our Past Coherence

Author:Daniel Taylor

“No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we (anyone) get through adolescence without some form of song? Song is only a version of lyric poetry that is carried more by melody than by internal coherence and unity. but lyric and song - they are the same.”

Needs Humans Form Song Unity Versions Internals Melody Adolescence Sustaining Coherence Lyric Poetry

Author:Gregory Orr

“The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely out of order, that you have to make some sense of, that you have to keep some coherence to the story, to the character.”

Character Stories Together Film Order Television Performances Crafts Intricate Coherence

Author:Gabriel Mann

“One of the things that happens when we're feeling more love and care is that we go into what's called "heart rhythm coherence," which you can actually measure and monitor on a computer screen. It's also possible to train yourself to go into heart rhythm coherence at will.”

Heart Feelings Happens Care Computer Train Screens Rhythm Coherence Love And Care Computer Screen

Author:Marci Shimoff

“There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city [of London] becomes incongruent. It doesn't have any coherence anymore.”

Cities Normal London Income Coherence City Of London

Author:Alasdair MacLean

“So if we can't express it or repress it, what do we do when we feel angry? The answer is to recognize the anger, but choose to respond to the situation differently. Easier said than done, right? Can you actually imagine trying to strong-arm your anger into another, more amicable feeling? It would never work. Determination alone won't work. It takes a new intelligence to understand and manage our emotions. By getting your head and heart in coherence and allowing the heart's intelligence to work for you, you can have a realistic chance of transforming your anger in a healthy way.”

“Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.”

Stories Powerful Quality Source Illusion Determined Constructs Validity Coherence Overconfidence

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“I am doubtful that there will be any sort of real coherence of Muslim societies into a single political system run by an elected or non-elected group of leaders.”

Real Running Political Leader Groups Political Systems Doubtful Coherence

Author:Samuel P. Huntington

“There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And they sound very convincing, they're very self-confident, and they have an answer to everything - a crazy answer, but it's an answer. And it's our fault if that goes on. So one thing to be done is don't ridicule these people, join them, and talk about their real grievances and give them a sensible answer, like, "Take over your factories."”

People Ifs Giving Real Self Done Guy Sound Answers One Thing Crazy Goes On Logic Faults Internals Over You Sensible Factories Ridicule Convincing Grievance Coherence Self Confident

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I believe that if we do have a commonality of beliefs we should clarify them, we should strengthen their coherence and we should also develop common projects that produce a lived community of relationships.”

Ifs Should Believe Belief I Believe Community Common Produce Projects Coherence Commonality

Author:Murray Bookchin

“Everybody's got a worldview, whether they know they have it or they don't. They might even get it when they are little tiny kids. Suppose they get it when they are in college, which is often the case, or in high school, whatever. Everything they learn after that or every thing they see after that, they fit it into that worldview. And they are making coherence of what's good, what's bad, what will work, what won't work, what's noble, what's ignoble, and so on... all through this filter.”

Knows Littles Might Kids School Cases College Fit High School Noble Tiny Worldview Filters Coherence Ignoble

Author:Jane Jacobs

“People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.”

People Dangerous Clarity Blunt Coherence

Author:Elia Suleiman

“Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.”

Should Character Stories Novel Shapes Should Have Evolve Aesthetic Coherence

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.”

Kind May Form Speak Criticism Experience Dramatic Logical Coherence

Book:Essays of Four Decades

Source: Essays of Four Decades

“If you don’t know your purpose, discover it, now. The core of your life is your purpose. Everything in your life, from your diet to your career, must be aligned with your purpose if you are to act with coherence and integrity in the world. If you know your purpose, your deepest desire, then the secret of success is to discipline your life so that you support your deepest purpose and minimize distractions and detours.”

Ifs Knows World Life Is Desire Purpose Secret Careers Support Discipline Integrity Core Diets Distraction Secret To Success Coherence Detours Superior Man

Author:David Deida

“we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.”

Ifs Study Seeing Identity Duty Explanation Complexity Contradiction Wasting Time Coherence

Author:Jose Saramago

“Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements.”

“Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.”

Humans Desire Fall Particular Lovers Falling In Love Appearance Plot Frightening Desirable Closure Coherence Combs

Author:A. S. Byatt

“Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying.”

World May Important Bigs Pain Law Evil Causes Pleasure Dying Events Becoming Unity Streams Uncertain Coherence Siddhartha

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.”

Ifs Heart Enough Might Order Patient Coherence

Book:The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

“There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.”

Faces Shining Stability Fleeting Immune Coherence Rubies

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.”

Ifs Life Mind Reason Feelings Action Bits Realizing Loses Memories Pieces Our Lives Filmmaker Remembrance Our Actions Our Memories Coherence Bits And Pieces Memory Loss

Book:My Last Breath

Source: My Last Breath

“Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.”

Language Memories Property Fragments Tense Our Memories Coherence Syntax

Author:Siri Hustvedt

“Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.”

Whole Seems Individual Process Growth Environment Development Balance Importance Manage Subtle Coherence

Book:The Oregon Experiment

Source: The Oregon Experiment

“Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you're waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their moldering fingerprints all across your day.”

Heart Stills Loses Wake Up Manage Nightmare Waking Coherence Fingerprints

Author:Mike Carey

“The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.”

Ideas Imagination Evidence Senses Preserves Coherence

Author:Adam Smith

“Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals.”

Said Culture Quality Empty Depth Nostalgia Authenticity Sensations Originality Signals Eclectic Disposable Superficiality Coherence Swirls Promiscuous

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.”

Past Form Simple History Study Happened Events Patterns Dramatic Reducing Seeming Coherence

Author:Johan Huizinga

“Democracy is self-creating coherence.”

Self Democracy Creating Intelligence Coherence

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.”

Source: Alternating Current

“...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop that vision starts in the more common experience of confusion and pain.”

Art Pain Goal Common Effort Vision Art Is Assuming Confusion Unhappiness Coherence Common Experience

Book:EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston

Source: EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston

“From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.”

Self Government Law Political Father Nations Hours Morning Modern Serious Development Kings Priests Continuity Noon Breach Modern Times Coherence

Book:The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics. A Sketch of Institutional History and Administration

Source: The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics. A Sketch of Institutional History and Administration

“The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.”

Long Ends Would Be Lost Language Audience Example Communication Sentences Tales Excellent Strings Phenomenon Professors Lectures Verbs Coherence Proverbial Recursion

Author:Douglas Hofstadter

“The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them.”

Giving Doe Ideas Together Spiritual Genuine Impulse Ties Reasoning Coherence

Author:Nicolas Gomez Davila

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