“We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge.” LongEndsCountryWaterAdviceStandingTraditionEdgesSenators Author:Mitt Romney
“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
“The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end.” WorldWayArtBookRealEndsEyeArtistNumbersPiecesPaintingArt IsEdgesDetermineDeterminedBoundariesSubtleReal WorldFrontiers Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon
“Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.” HumansEndsHuman BeingsCuttingMovementRacismEdgesIdeologyInferiorsReactionariesSlopesDeclaringCutting EdgeAuschwitz Author:Ken Livingstone
“Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Because the government really set about ensuring that it maintained funding for technical training, technical advancements and programs. It made a concerted effort to retain high-end, complex manufacturing -- the kind of BMW model, if you will. And they've done that so successfully that Germany, which has a quarter of America's population, exports more than America does.” IfsKindDoeMadeEndsDoneGovernmentAmericaEffortRolesEconomyTaxesModelsTrainingProgramComplexesEdgesPopulationDespiteGermanyFascinatingRole ModelsQuartersRegulationAdvancementFundingManufacturingBmwHigh TaxesTechnical Training Author:Fareed Zakaria
“The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years, become tradition and people forget they were ever part of the avant-garde. The kitchen is a living discipline, always evolving, and there will always be cutting edge things that over the years, ends up being part of tradition.” PeopleYearsEndsLastsForgetCuttingMankindDisciplineTraditionGood ThingsEdgesEvolveKitchenAvant GardeCutting EdgeYear End Author:Ferran Adria
“This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.” HumansMeanEndsFactsWalkingDrugTransformationEdgesPsychedelicShamanismWhat It Means To Be HumanPsychedelic Drugs Author:Terence McKenna