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“We're living at a time when attention is the new currency We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make. Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Fitbit and the SenseCam give us a simple choice: participate or fade into a lonely obscurity.”

Giving Choices Simple Attention Lonely Connections Valuable Fades Currency Publishers Publish Obscurity Flickr Foursquare

Author:Pete Cashmore

“There is a deep connection between Bernoulli's dictum and John Kelly's 1956 publication. It turns out that Kelly's prescription can be restated as this simple rule: When faced with a choice of wagers or investments, choose the one with the highest geometric means of outcomes.”

Mean Turns Choices Simple Highest Connections Investment Outcomes Publication Prescriptions Geometric Wagers Deep Connections

Author:William Poundstone

“When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.”

Play Simple Heard Listening Connections Down And Hip Hop Hips Hops Blues Music

Author:Dan Auerbach

“At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.”

Firsts Has Beens Reason Age Law Simple Century Thousand Connections All Time Destroying Despotism

Author:Marquis de Sade

“Usually, I make a simple beat, throw in the acapella, and then I just improvise on the piano. Whatever comes up, I record the result, and I rework on it. Sometimes it takes a while to come with an idea, but mostly it comes naturally because I already have a connection with the song.”

Ideas Sometimes Song Simple Results Records Beats Connections Come Up Piano Rework

Author:Shook

“Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.”

Games Simple Conversation Empathy Connections Performances Competition Circles Climbing Construction Hierarchy Pyramids

Author:Richard Rohr

“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”

People Has Beens Simple Mankind Morality Connections Bases Tragedy Assuming Great Tragedy

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.”

Knows Book Ideas Ends Country Matter Enough Philosophy Simple Views Knowing Connections Contradiction Rough Organisms Beginnings And Ends

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“When it seems impossible that a deep connection with another person could just go away instead of changing form. It seems impossible that you will one day look up and say the words "I used to date someone who lived in that building," referring to a three-year relationship. As simple as if it was a pizza place that is now a dry cleaner's. It happens. Keep walking.”

Source: How Did You Get This Number

“Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no one ever mentioned it, an immediate sensual connection to people and events, and to her own needs and desires? All these years she had lived in isolation within herself and, strangely, from herself, never wanting or daring to look back.”

People Needs Years Looks Long Desire Simple Taken Events Ordinary Connections Tricks Sensual Isolation Mechanism Daring

Author:Ian Mcewan

“From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.”

Children Philosophy Facts Literature Interest Lines Simple Attention Teacher Objects Offers Program Connections Educational Abstract Native Immediate Connection

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“So just look into your acts, into your thoughts, into your feelings: you will find the armor everywhere. Wherever you see fear, you have created it. It was needed at one time - now it is no longer needed. A simple understanding that it is no longer needed... now it is a barrier, a hindrance, a burden. If you find something truthful, it will have its own validity. But in the armor you will not find anything that has any connection with truth. The whole armor is made of fear - layers and layers of fear.”

Ifs Looks Made Whole Feelings Fear Understanding Simple Needed Connections Burden Barriers One Time Truthful Layers Armor Validity Hindrance

Book:The World Beyond Time

Source: The World Beyond Time