“A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.” ThinkingHumansLongImportantBeautifulFormRolesLong TimeUglyTendenciesCategoriesLong Time AgoUnimportantLumpsInterconnectedness Author:Gary Larson
“Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.” IfsLongMotherMiddleClimateTendenciesAustraliaConsumption Book:An autobiography Source: An autobiography
“There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.” ThinkingLooksLongRealityNaturalExcuseDenyTendenciesVulnerableResolveGoreAnother Day Author:Al Gore
“If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you'll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.” IfsHumansLongEnoughHandsHappensRunningCertainGamesWinningProcessLosesNumbersPlayerHabitInvolvedSkillsNormalFlowMajorityTendenciesMinoritiesStakesLong RunsTradingEquityPersistentImplicationsParticipantsConcentratingTradersAccelerateBetting Author:William Eckhardt
“I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles are wanted and must be made on a large scale, the process will stamp its imprint on the society, whether that me be Magnitogorsk or Gary, Indiana.” IfsLongMadeWantedProcessStrongerScalesTendenciesOrganizedCapitalistSocialistSteelStampsAlasAutomobileIndianaGaryLarge Scale Author:John Kenneth Galbraith