“The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.” ThinkingWayUnderstandingMy OwnMysteryHumilityEvolutionOffersIncreaseResponseCosmosHelpfulInvokeBiodiversity Book:The Sacred Depths of Nature Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature
“I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive. ... The kind of esteem that's given to brightness/smartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation.” PeopleHumansKindIdeasGivenHuman BeingsAliveEmotionalOffersIntellectualConsciousResponseAverageCommittedEsteemHuman LifeUnconsciousParticipationRichnessBrightnessParticipatingLearnersSmartnessIntellectual LifeEmotional Response Author:Ntozake Shange
“Every Day Is for the Thief, by turns funny, mournful, and acerbic, offers a portrait of Nigeria in which anger, perhaps the most natural response to the often lamentable state of affairs there, is somehow muted and deflected by the author's deep engagement with the country: a profoundly disenchanted love. Teju Cole is among the most gifted writers of his generation.” CountryStatesTurnsNaturalGenerationsOffersResponseAffairEngagementThievesGiftedPortraitsNigeriaDisenchantedGifted Writers Author:Salman Rushdie
“The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally hate an illustration of a character on a jacket of a book. I never want to have someone show me what the character really looks like - or what some artist has decided the character really looks like - because it always looks wrong to me. I realize that I prefer to kind of meet the text halfway and offer a lot of visual collaborations from my own imaginative response to the sentences.” WorldWantLooksKindBookCharacterShowsArtistHateRealizingMy OwnReaderOffersDecidedResponseSentencesVisualsCollaborationShow MeImaginativeHalfwayJacketsIllustration Author:Jonathan Lethem
“In certain cases I don't want to sell tracks individually; I want to only sell the whole album. With simple things like that I just don't get any response [from iTunes]. I don't want to kill iTunes - I just want to offer my own retail experience in my own tiny corner of the Internet.” WantWholeCertainMy OwnSimpleCasesInternetOffersSellsResponseTrackAlbumsCornersTinySimple ThingsRetailItunes Author:DJ Shadow
“Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons the area of ecological pollution. The pollution not only of air, water, and other substances, but also the unperceived pollution of distances.” WaterAirOffersResearchAreasDistanceResponseSubstancePollutionInitialsEcologicalCircuitsViralContamination Book:Open Sky Source: Open Sky
“I think the impacts of 9/11 on academic freedom vary greatly depending on locale and time (softening with the passage of time), and even within the same community, and likely within the same schools. This variability makes it difficult to offer generalized responses without accompanying caveats.” ThinkingSchoolDifficultCommunityOffersImpactResponsePassagesAcademicVaryPassage Of TimeVariabilityAcademic Freedom Author:Richard A. Falk
“I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.” NeedsHumansHeartFeelingsFallHuman BeingsEmotionalMy HeartOffersResponseFalling In LoveObsessedChairsWarmthApprovalFurnitureFeedback Author:Carrie Fisher
“Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."” ThinkingGivingMaySeemsEarthFacesUsedSunWindMastersLoversOffersBirdRedRainCrossesSeasonsResponseSeedsCosmicSecrecyNestsMortgageBorrowedFloweringCreeksTenantsDelinquents Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings