“If it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious as to escape notice, it seems to me that this applies to events in life, numberless happenings, perhaps the basic ones, which we, saturated in detail and hurrying through subdivisions, lose sight of.” IfsSeemsLosesEventsHappeningsSightDifficultySimplicityDetailsObviousHurryingSaturatedEvents In Life Author:Mary Butts
“The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.” MindAgeEventsSightMarkBrilliantPeculiarFlashProphecyStatesmenLegislatorsPropheticStatesmanshipAnonFuture Events Book:Papers Source: Papers
“We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that seemed to livein our room at night. Nevertheless, those memories are still there, somewhere inside us, and can sometimes be brought to the surface by events, sights, sounds, or smells. Children, though, can never have grown-up feelings until they've been allowed to do the growing.” ChildrenStillsSometimesFeelingsLightAbleNightSoundMemoriesRoomsGrowingEventsSightForgottenSmellSurfaceMonstersNevertheless Author:Fred Rogers
“What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History. Being faithful to all that happens to you of significance, recording days, dates, events, names, sights not relying merely upon memory which fades like a Polaroid print where you see the memory fading before your eyes like time itself retreating.” HappensEyeNamesMemoriesEventsLaborSightForgottenFaithfulSignificancePrintFadesDoomedFadingBeing FaithfulPolaroids Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Training can be monotonous, and it is hard work, but you never lose sight of why you are doing it. Every single effort of every single session counts in the months and years leading up to a big event.” YearsHardBigsLosesEffortEventsHard WorkMonthsTrainingSightSessionMonotonousBig Events Author:Chris Hoy
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.” TimeStrongEventsRiversSightCurrentsPassingPassingsTime PassingSwept AwayPassing ByPassing It Author:Marcus Aurelius
“The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.” MenHandsRealityLosesWiseEventsDangerBecomingEssentialsSightDepthDetailsSignificantAcquireDependentWisestMultiplicityFactual Book:Ethics Source: Ethics
“The pace of events is moving so fast that unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.” WayTodayMovingEventsTomorrowSightPace Author:Dean Rusk
“There was deep knowledge on the part of members of the Nation of Islam regarding the planning, in sight of the OAAU and the Muslim Mosque Incorporated regarding the events at the Audubon. They knew when they were going to be there, they knew what the schedules were.” NationsEventsMembersSightIslamPlanningSchedulesMosquesNation Of Islam Author:Manning Marable