“The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.” IfsThinkingFeelsStillsSpiritualCertainSidesGrowthNaturalSimpleAttitudeLearningSadnessAwarenessEmotionalShapesApproachTrainingAngryTrainPersonal GrowthDetermineHappyMoodPerceiveSoilSpiritual GrowthDistractionSwingsSpontaneousPremisesSereneEquanimityTrain Of Thought Book:Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness Source: Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness
“The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.” MindHas BeensMadeSeemsHappensLastsPastRomanceCertainTurnsLearningHappenedModernSpecialEasierRegardTerrorDecadesReliefFatigueCultivation Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.” InspirationalSelfMotivationalCertainUniverseLearningSelf EsteemPositiveConfidenceSelf ImprovementYogaPersonal GrowthCornersImprovementSelf DiscoveryNovelistsFinding YourselfImprovingTrue SelfSelf DevelopmentKnow YourselfInner SelfSelf GrowthKnow ThyselfAround The CornerSelf KnowingImproving YourselfInspiring Self EsteemDiscovering SelfYou Can Make A DifferenceYou Make A DifferenceDiscovering Your True SelfGreat Self EsteemBeing Your True SelfInfinite UniverseDifferent UniversesConstantly Improving Author:Aldous Huxley
“You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.” LifeCertainTimeDiesRealizingSpaceLearningInspirational LifeAppreciationActressesFormerLive LifeWasting TimeLiving My LifeEnjoy LifeLife Is ShortLife Is Too ShortTime PassingFirst LadyLive And LearnAppreciate LifeLife LearningDon't Waste Your TimeYou Live And You LearnYou Only Live OnceOne Life To LiveLife Being ShortTime Is Running OutMake It Count Author:Nancy Reagan
“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.” InspirationalImportantCertainEducationKnownKnowledgeLearningStudyTeacherTeachingStudentsWorshipEducationalQuestioningGreat TeacherProgramming LanguagesGood TeacherComputer LanguageTeaching ChildrenGreat EducationTeaching And LearningEducation And TeachersSchool TeachersBarefootSchools And EducationSchool EducationGreat EducationalImportant QuestionsTeaching And EducationTeachers And TeachingTeaching EducationTeacher StudentInspirational TeacherTeacher And StudentInspirational EducationGreat TeachingKnowledge EducationBeing A TeacherEducation And KnowledgeGood TeachingStudents And EducationGood StudentsStudent LearningParents And TeachersKnowledge LearningInspiring EducationTeaching StudentsTraining And EducationIrreverenceWhat Is EducationSchools And TeachersEducation TodayAcademic LifeEducation Is ImportantImportance Of ScienceStudents Today Author:Jacob Bronowski
“Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.” LittlesDifferentSchoolYoungCertainLearningSocietyHabitInstitutionsSchoolingSchooledUnschoolingEducation And Freedom Author:Winston Churchill
“They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.” MenCertainPleasureEducationLearningGardenEducationalStoresStrifeContentionTrimming Author:Thomas More
“For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.” WayMatterScienceCertainDifferencesOpinionKnowledgeLearningSubjectsPolicyDiversityWeaknessEmptyMathematicsMethodPressesIllDesertTortureAbstractShellsDeliveryBarrenGeneralitiesKernel Author:Francis Bacon
“We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is "man-made", ergo artificial. But what one learns in chemistry is that Nature wrote all the rules of structuring; man does not invent chemical structuring rules; he only discovers the rules. All the chemist can do is find out what Nature permits, and any substances that are thus developed or discovered are inherently natural. It is very important to remember that.” MenDoeMadeImportantRememberScienceCertainSpeakCan DoNaturalLearningMaterialsImportanceBasesNotionSubstanceChemistryPermitChemicalsArtificialChemistTerminology Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition of similarities between certain objects, situations, or processes in the real world and the decision to concentrate on these similarities and to ignore, for the time being, their differences.” WorldHumansRealCertainProcessUnderstandingDifferencesDecisionPowerfulSituationLearningObjectsDevelopmentToolsComplexesAvailableIntellectAriseRecognitionProgrammingMost PowerfulReal WorldAbstractionSimilarityComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer Language Author:Tony Hoare
“When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In general, the later chapters contain more reliable information than the earlier ones do. The author feels that this technique of deliberate lying will actually make it easier for you to learn the ideas. Once you understand a simple but false rule, it will not be hard to supplement that rule with its exceptions.” FeelsIdeasHardLyingCertainSimpleLearningInformationEasierConceptsTechniqueProgrammingExceptionChaptersDeliberateComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesSupplementsComputer Language Author:Donald Knuth
“A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.” ThinkingWayHumansCertainLanguageNaturalLearningFavorsProgrammingWay Of ThinkingComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageHuman Language Author:Seymour Papert
“You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.” ThinkingKnowsWritingCertainTeachLearningProgramProgrammingProgramming LanguagesYou Think You KnowSoftware Design Author:Alan Perlis