“Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.” UsePresidentMajorsTransformationCriticalRitualPassagesAssociatesCrossingsThresholdBaptismAnthropologists Author:Abraham Verghese
“we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.” NeedsDecisionMajorsAreasCriticalManageDay To DayCritical Decisions Book:The 360 Degree Leader with Workbook: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization Source: The 360 Degree Leader with Workbook: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
“Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are the workhorses of nuclear medicine, an isotope of plutonium is a major energy source in the space program, and the element americium is critical to the smoke detectors in every house in the country.” Has BeensCountryUseTodayHouseEnergySpaceSourceElementsMajorsResearchDiscoveryProgramMedicineCriticalNuclearSmokeEnergy SourcesSpace ProgramPlutoniumBasic ResearchIsotopes Author:Glenn T. Seaborg
“The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.” FateMajorsSellsCriticalReviewsPublishersHandfulSuccessorsBookshops Author:John Scott
“The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent.” WorldHas BeensMatterReasonGrowsMajorsConcernCriticalAround The WorldContinentsCatastropheAfrican Continent Author:Thabo Mbeki