“I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.” ThinkingKnowsWayMeanImportantEndsHappensReadingNovelMiddleBuiltAnnaPredictability Author:Scarlett Thomas
“You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that any more, well you know, there you go. Trust was broken.” KnowsWorldWellsEndsThis WorldBrokenHonorBuiltReputationThe End Of The Day Author:George Tenet
“The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians...” KnowsYearsWellsEndsStrongBuiltInternationalPalestinianConsensusIncompleteApartheid Author:Nelson Mandela
“Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.” IfsWayInspirationalDifferentEndsCertainRealizingAbilityMistakePracticeStruggleWalkingBuiltErrorsEdgesIceHillsDifferent WaysMaking MistakesParadoxCoveredSmarterSlow DownStumblingSlipping Author:Daniel Coyle
“Microsoft has built loyalty at the end-user level, including upper management, .. That works for a while in the early stages of a product, but after a couple of years the blush fades from the rose. It's reality versus marketing.” YearsEndsRealityLevelsStageProductsCoupleBuiltManagementRoseIncludingMarketingLoyaltyUsersFadesVersusMicrosoft Author:Murphy J. Foster, Jr.
“I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.” PeopleKnowsEndsTogetherDesireResultsCarDesignBuiltCompetitionDesignerEnd ResultsHorsepower Author:Carroll Shelby
“Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.” MeanEndsTurnsGoalWealthEconomyFashionIndustryBuiltMachinesProductionsScalesGoodsLeisureDevotedConsumptionReplacedExpansionOutputObsolescence Book:THE CITY IN HISTORY Source: THE CITY IN HISTORY
“I thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends.” NeedsMeanLittlesEndsDifficultIndustryBuiltConnectionsFortuneSignificantSincereExceptionalSeriousnessDisparityTriviality Book:The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
“Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.” EndsStoriesThreeProcessPerfectPaintingBuiltDepthUnconsciousPathwaysDreamworks Author:Billy Cannon
“Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.” IfsArtTwoEndsKnowingPlansDangerBecomingArt IsBuiltExperimentsCraftsObsessedExperimental Science Author:Martin Lewis Perl