“We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration.” FeelsHappensActionForceDestinyFateMastersOccasionsOur ActionsExhilarationRare Occasion Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“There's the occasion when politicians will say things that are simply not true, or that they make commitments that they have no intention of fulfilling. That is something that I think should not happen. That's a no-no. That's a third rail that you shouldn't touch.” ThinkingShouldHappensPoliticianCommitmentThirdsIntentionOccasionsFulfillingRail Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as much to maintain it. One who has written a good book, is expected on all occasions to "talk like a book." Or, if one has achieved an act of heroism, he is expected to perform acts of heroism for the edification of all who approach him. There are people who can never believe they see a lion unless they hear him roar.” PeopleIfsBelieveMeanBookHappensWrittenApproachLaborExpectedReputationOccasionsLionsHeroismGood BookEdificationAll OccasionsActs Of Heroism Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.” PeopleIfsLittlesFeelingsHappensCommandOccasionsProseConceited Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“I had a very Italian house - the "plastic furniture you couldn't sit on" house. Did anybody have the museum house? For a kid it's traumatic. Towels you can never touch. China no one's ever gonna use. Everything is for a special occasion that never happens. My mother was waiting for the Pope to show up for dinner. Or Sinatra. Or Chachi.” UseShowsHappensKidsMotherHouseWaitingSpecialChinaDinnerOccasionsItalianMuseumsPlasticPopeFurnitureTowelsSpecial Occasion Author:Ray Romano
“The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment.” FirstsFactsHappensTodayFormCommonAttitudeAcceptingHappenedSpecialPhilosophicalRegardSurpriseProfoundYesterdayOccasionsPrimariesFeaturesEncountersDistinguishedAstonishment Author:Erwin Schrodinger