“It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.” FormEventsFoolInevitableFixedUnfolding Book:Children of Dune Source: Children of Dune
“The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation.” StoriesLife IsEventsEvolutionNotionRapidsFullnessDisturbedUnfoldingEquilibriumHistory Of LifeGradualismSpeciation Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Belief is the capacity to see not only life's surfaces but also its holy depths, to be able to look at events unfolding around us but also to look through them, above them and beneath them to preceive what is truly happening.” LooksAbleBeliefEventsHolyHappeningsCapacityDepthSurfaceUnfolding Author:Thomas G. Long
“My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs to reveal the person through stance and stare, when he or she was most reflective or off guard, in order to measure the person and event unfolding.” PersonsMomentsWantedOrderEventsPoliticianPhotographVulnerableStaringTruthfulUnfoldingStance Book:Jerome Liebling: The Minnesota Photographs, 1949-1969 Source: Jerome Liebling: The Minnesota Photographs, 1949-1969
“Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.” SelfEventsEternalSilentWitnessTrue SelfObservingUnfolding Author:Deepak Chopra
“Over the longer term, China will grow by about 6% or 7% per year. The Chinese authorities usually react pretty quickly to unfolding economic events, and you've seen them recently change a whole bunch of policies to be more conducive to growth. They have the power and capability to macromanage the economy - to accomplish their growth objectives - which means they're pretty much going to come close to what they say is going to happen.” YearsMeanWholeHappensGrowsGrowthTermEconomyEconomicEventsPolicyAuthorityChinaAccomplishBunchObjectivesChineseCapabilityUnfolding Author:Jamie Dimon