“I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.” IfsFeelsDoeImportantAttitudeDependsOneselfGenuineBehaviourDay To DayAffectionateIllogicalDay LifeDay To Day Life Book:The Power of Compassion: A Collection of Lectures Source: The Power of Compassion: A Collection of Lectures
“The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.” ImportantTermAchieveIntegrityImportant ThingsStructureStriveAccomplishDrivenGenuineFormalStrife Author:Wayne Thiebaud
“In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.” PeopleImportantCountryFactsRealityAnimalEnemyCreaturesValuableGenuineIgnorantFactorsExcellentProtestCivilizedHuntingOddsHuntersWild AnimalSportsmanExterminationHunting And FishingWild CreaturesWild Life Book:The Deer Family Source: The Deer Family
“A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.” FirstsKindHas BeensImportantIdeasTurnsBeliefInterestConceptsGenuineInventionInsanityRealmsAssumptionReverseNew IdeasPriesthoodVested InterestsOld Ideas Author:Arthur Miller
“An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.” BelieveImportantSometimesPhilosophyFormNaturalViewsAtheismTheoryAmountMetsTraditionFundamentalsPositive AtheismGuidesGenuineAllegianceScientismNatural SciencePrimacy Book:Atheism and Theism Source: Atheism and Theism