“Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated in making the film, led to this man's release from prison. And that's hardly ever happened, if it's happened at all, in any other film that I can think of.” IfsThinkingMenI CanFilmHappenedParticularTruth IsEvidencePrisonProofPursuitInstanceReleaseQuestsPudding Author:Errol Morris
“And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?” AgeHappenedMiddleInstanceMiddle AgesJulietPastaSilhouettes Book:Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings Source: Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings
“A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.” WayWritingEasyHappenedFolksMemoirInstance Author:Homer Hickam
“My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.” FirstsNumbersWorryHappenedSceneFirst TimeInstanceSensations Book:Tales of Power Source: Tales of Power
“Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about it. 'Do you mean that you didn't see what happened?'. Of course I did. But I don't count. I am the one who's lying to you, remember?” MeanRealRememberLyingCoursesHappenedAgreeInstanceEveningBeing RealRealness Author:Carlos Castaneda
“Now, part of the problem with the climate debate is that so much gas board language like that [the IPCC's language] has been used and there's been too little plain, scientific, and economic thinking. And so, the entire political class has been captured by an idea, which as always with the best bad ideas has a grain of truth in it, which is then exaggerated beyond all reason. This has happened before - one thinks of the Dreyfus case, for instance.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensIdeasReasonProblemPoliticalUsedLanguageClassCasesHappenedEconomicClimateDebateInstanceBoardsGasGrainCapturedExaggeratedBad Ideas Author:Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
“I think mentoring is essential in life, both being a mentor to someone and being mentored, and I think that when you are mentored it inspires a generosity in you to mentor others and that I know is what happened with me, so for instance, the people that come through my studio to work for me, it's not good enough for me to just give them a paycheck.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingEnoughHappenedInspireEssentialsStudiosInstanceGenerosityGood EnoughMentorBeing MeNot Good EnoughMentoringPaychecks Author:Carol Friedman