“Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.” MindIdeasHappensPastHappenedSubjectsHappeningsDistracted Book:Turning the Mind Into an Ally Source: Turning the Mind Into an Ally
“It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.” ThinkingPersonsTwoHappensSubjectsCommunicationReasoning Author:Oliver Evans
“It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight.” PeopleMeanHappensComedySubjectsAspectAbortionCannibalismUptight Author:Rob McElhenney
“Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.” IfsTryingProblemHandsHappensPainLyingSoundPresidentCompassionClearSubjectsExampleNotesTongueTiedIdealismVocabularyNo ProblemGrammarMagnanimitySyntaxCuffsTongue TiedInfliction Author:Mark Crispin Miller
“As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in the lives of Black folk as the subject. Not the predicate, not the tangent.[These stories] deserve to be told. Not as sociology, not as spectacle, not as a singular event that happens every so often, but regularly and purposefully as truth and as art on an ongoing basis, as do the stories of all the women you love.” FeelsArtStoriesHappensJobsBlackSubjectsEventsDeserveBasesFolksFilmmakerBlack WomenSociologyPreferenceOngoingSubjectivityVisibility Author:Ava DuVernay
“Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the whole subject is therefore called typology, though it is a typology in a special sense.” WholeHappensSpecialSubjectsTypeTestamentNew TestamentOld TestamentTypology Book:The Great Code: The Bible and Literature Source: The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
“The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and robbers, it was an experiment that anyone could quit at any time and minimal safeguards were in place. You must distinguish hind sight from fore sight, knowing what you know now after the study is quite different from what most people imagined might happen before the study began.” PeopleKnowsHumansDifferentMightHappensKidsKnowingStudySubjectsCollegeResearchSightPrisonQuittingExperimentsCopCommitteesApprovedRobbersStanfordKids PlayingCops And Robbers Author:Philip Zimbardo
“Without money, you are powerless in this world. You are totally subject to whatever happens. To be without money in the physical world is to be powerless.” WorldHappensSuccessCareersSubjectsThis WorldBuddhismPowerlessWhatever Happens Author:Frederick Lenz
“Whenever an encounter between a writer of good will and a regular person of good will happens to touch on the subject of writing, each person discovers, dismayed, that good will is of no earthly use. The conversation cannot proceed.” WritingPersonsUseHappensSubjectsConversationEncountersGood WillDismayed Author:Annie Dillard
“Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences.” ThinkingPlayBigsHappensForceSubjectsHugeTerribleConsequenceFollyCustomsMomentumAccounting Author:Charlie Munger