“Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness is the perfect companion to Mindfulness in Plain English. Written with the thoroughness and the masterful simplicity so characteristic of his teaching, Bhante Gunaratana presents essential guidelines for turning the Buddha's teachings on the Eightfold Path into living wisdom.” PerfectStepsPathWrittenTeachingEssentialsMindfulnessSimplicityEightCharacteristicsCompanionGuidelinesThoroughnessPlain English Author:Larry Rosenberg
“Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.” WorldMatterOrderProcessSpacePiecesWrittenMaterialsEssentialsStructureSeriesWritten WordSpoken Word Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.” IfsWould BePiecesAliveWrittenWorstPoetEssentialsDylanTexture Author:Randall Jarrell
“Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why.” MayUseActionLawCoursesWrittenHappenedEssentialsTasksRemainsHistoricalVariousNarrativeSequenceWritten History Book:The New Psychohistory Source: The New Psychohistory
“Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.” RealityWrittenConflictEssentialsFunctionImportanceDefinitionsCustomsWarfareHarshHierarchyDefianceChivalryParamountBritish HistoryHarsh RealityArmed Conflict Author:Linda Colley
“I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before the novel disappears, because the novel is really one of the only places in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.” ThinkingWorldNeedsBelieveHumansTwoStoriesMightI BelieveTermAnswersNovelWrittenEssentialsAbsolutesStrangerDisappearIntimacyPlaces In The WorldHuman Needs Author:Jonathan Lethem
“I think that there are non-physical laws all right: genuine (if not strict) laws written in the language of biology, economics, and so on. But I don't regard that as a contentious issue. Even reductionists about chemistry will think that there are special chemical laws whose formulation makes essential use of chemical terminology.” IfsThinkingUseLawLanguageIssuesWrittenSpecialEssentialsEconomicsRegardGenuineBiologyChemistryChemicalsStrictTerminologyContentiousStrict Laws Author:David Papineau
“Where we're telling the story of the history of the ensemblist [in the "Ensemblist Essentials"], using the nine musicals that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as fixed points in time We're going from 1931 to 2016 and using these shows to talk about what the typical show was like for an ensemblist at the time; did this show change anything about that job, while it was changing everything about the way theatre was written and produced and made?” WayMadeStoriesShowsJobsWrittenDramaEssentialsTheatreNineFixedPrizeTypicalChanging Everything Author:Nikka Graff Lanzarone
“I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really isn't anything essential in there - you're the product of your actions, which can always change. And they retrospectively make you one way or another.” WayKindActionExistenceWrittenProductsPerspectiveEssentialsEssenceOppositesArguingOne WayExistentialist Author:Zadie Smith