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“We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.”

Source: Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe

“What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.”

Wanted Space Comfortable Majors Absence Backgrounds Breathing Neighborhood Intensity Private Life Convenience Calculations Public Life Aggravation Intermission Breathing Space

Book:Familiar territory: observations on American life

Source: Familiar territory: observations on American life

“I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.”

Thinking Today Comfortable Majors Reckoning Confessing

Author:Kiese Laymon

“I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some unnamed prize committee, only he lets us know that it's all a wry game.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Doe I Can Games Cutting Sadness Comfortable Majors Performances Prize Speakers Committees Ankles Larger Than Life Wry

Author:Randall Mann

“The operas that I do are more in the operetta world, but I've gotten to do them in all of these major opera companies so it's been really wild. And I feel comfortable in that world because I went Cincinnati Conservatory and I hung out with all those kinds of people, I love hanging out with them and I understand them and their "diva-osity."”

People World Feels Kind Company Comfortable Majors Hanging Out Opera Hung Conservatory

Author:Jason Graae

“We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.”

Feels Has Beens Force Church Comfortable Majors England Britain Host Church Of England

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live.”

People Way Life Needs Left Rooms Particular Comfortable Majors Consequence Towns Hotel Schemes Convenience Convenient Hotel Rooms Where You Live She Left Me

Author:Toni Morrison