“What we call stress is just extension of being busy without meaning. When you do things that are not meaningful to you, just to get the sense of completion, just to feel like you got something done, your spirit feels empty. So, the most important thing for people to realize is that you have to control the flow of information in your life.” PeopleFeelsImportantDoneSpiritRealizingInformationLike YouFlowEmptyStressImportant ThingsBusyMeaningfulExtensionsCompletionBeing Busy Author:Tony Robbins
“It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.” WayEnergyViewsInformationEmptyCrucialVesselFluidMisleadEmpty Vessels Author:Anatol Rapoport
“The body is made up of atoms and subatomic particles that are moving at lightning speed around huge empty spaces and the body gives off fluctuations of energy and information in a huge void, so essentially your body is proportionately as void as intergalactic space, made out of nothing, but the nothing is actually the source of information and energy.” GivingMadeBodyMovingEnergySpaceInformationHugeSourceEmptySpeedYour BodyAtomsVoidLightningParticlesEmpty SpaceFluctuationSubatomic Particles Author:Deepak Chopra
“Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.” PeopleRealFictionInformationEmptyHistoricalCraftsHistorical FictionLacking Author:Hilary Mantel
“The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the purpose of my story, she should have it with her. I sat on my dad's bed and flipped through page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black-and-white photo which if it were used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful.” IfsShouldStoriesWould BeUsedMotherPurposeFoundWishBlackWhitePsychologyInformationExpressionDadBedPagesEmptyShould HaveMy DadSatHopefulBlack And WhiteWornStampsExoticTextbooksDrawersPassportsFacialFlippedHandkerchiefsFacial Expression Book:A Complicated Kindness: A Novel Source: A Complicated Kindness: A Novel
“It is not how much empty space there is, but rather how it is used. It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.” UsedSpaceInformationEmptyEmpty Space Author:Edward Tufte