“At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.” WorldHumansHas BeensHardIndividualGivenTechnologyIssuesDependsProtectSurvivalCommitmentAssumingSpeciesFloatsRelentlessPierceReassuranceOmenEmpiricismKnowledge Of The WorldBison Book:Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
“When you start a rock n' roll band, you've gotta fake it till you make it. You begin by doin' what you love- and what you love is usually what some other people have already done. It just depends on how much of a fool you make of yourself along the way to finding your own sound, assuming you find it.” PeopleWayDoneSoundLove IsRocksFoolDependsBandFindingsAssumingFakeRock N RollWhat You Love Author:Steven Tyler
“Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.” PeopleWantDependsAssuming Author:Anne Carson
“Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.” WorldHumansAbleFormDependsAssumingWorthwhileGood WorkHuman RelationsHuman Relationships Author:Stefan Collini
“The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The greater the number of selections, the less will be the average year-to-year variation in actual versus expected results. Also, the lower will be the expected results, assuming different choices have different expectations of performance.” YearsDifferentChoicesResultsNumbersGreaterDependsDegreesExpectationsPerformancesAssumingAverageVariousAvailableExpectedVersusSelectionVariationTolerablePortfoliosVarianceOptimumDifferent Choices Author:Warren Buffett
“Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists, for example, or a work by Cage. For me, there's a great value in doing this with literature. There's a certain form of dependence; process and product inform each other, depend on each other. I consider myself a writer who doesn't write with a style, almost. I begin with tension, with a vibe, a character.” WritingCharacterFormCertainValuesLiteratureProcessGreaterStyleInformationExampleProductsDependsImportanceAssumingTensionDependenceCagesGraphicGreat ValueSurrealist Author:Sergio Chejfec
“I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.” ThinkingSelfEnergyDependsBirthAssumingMask Book:The Major Works Source: The Major Works