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“It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig of the tree of life, namely ours, having a big brain happened to have advantages. But that's just what worked for a particular species of primate 5 to 7 million years ago.”

Years Ideas Bigs Process Brain Millions Greater Happened Tree Particular Evolution Intellectual Advantage Years Ago Species Complexity Tree Of Life Primates Twigs Old Ideas

Author:Steven Pinker

“Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.”

Thinking Persons Inspiration Joy Process Interest Greater Depth Bounds Positivity Excited Deeper Excitement Unhappiness Nests Monotony Dullness Excitement Of Life

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from a body at higher temperature to a body at lower temperature because the state of equal temperature distribution is more probable than a state of unequal temperature distribution.”

States Body Science Process Nature Greater Higher Equal Heat Probability Distribution Temperature

Book:Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909

Source: Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909

“The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through intelligent, reasoned decisions. Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our Nation.”

“We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in which we see less envy of other peoples' achievements and mistrust of commerce, and a greater readiness to get out there and join in the process.”

Needs Culture Process Successful Greater Achievement Entrepreneur Envy Treated Enterprise Commerce Suspicion Readiness Mistrust Disdain Successful Entrepreneurs

Author:Norman Tebbit

“The practice of first developing a clear and precise definition of a process without regard for efficiency, and then using it as a guide and a test in exploring equivalent processes possessing other characteristics, such as greater efficiency, is very common in mathematics. It is a very fruitful practice which should not be blighted by premature emphasis on efficiency in computer execution.”

“The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.”

Mind Wells Looks Persons Self Turns Nations Process Greater Lifetime Serving Mature I Have Learned Inward Serving Others Infantile Useful Things

Author:Margery Wilson

“The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.”

World Feels Children Littles Character Process Greater Childhood Intellectual Models Conscious Adults Bigger Familiar Surroundings Memories Dreams Reflections Miniatures

Author:Carl Jung

“Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.”

Source: Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge

“The shadow of an exit of Greece from the euro zone takes on ever clearer shape, repeated apparently final attempts to reach a deal are starting to make the whole process look ridiculous. There is an ever greater number of people who feel as if the Greek government is giving them the run-around.”

People Ifs Giving Feels Looks Whole Government Running Process Deals Numbers Greater Shapes Shadow Finals Starting Ridiculous Greek Zone Greece Exit Euro

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.”

Said Earth Process Fire Greater Four Wind Trump Rain Cards Suits Everlasting Pointing Shuffling

Book:The Greater Trumps

Source: The Greater Trumps

“Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.”

People Needs Feels Believe Names Social Process Numbers Greater Crime Hero Safe Ego Justified True Hero

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.”

Two Together Order Heaven Process Greater Sinner Partnership Needy Bonding

Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson

“One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.”

People Done Social Process Greater Cost Activity Benefits Trade Certainty Probability Labeling Sorting Trade Offs

Author:Thomas Sowell