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“The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.”

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“The biggest challenge is how to get people to wake up and realize this is a one-shot deal. If we fail, we are witting participants in the biggest experiment humans have ever done: moving CO2 levels to twice their value in the past 670.000 years and hoping it turns out okay for generations to come.”

People Ifs Years Humans Done Past Moving Values Turns Realizing Challenges Levels Deals Failing Generations Shots Okay Wake Up Climate Experiments Participants Co2

Author:Nathan Lewis

“When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time we spend together at the kitchen table, the more how-to books appear in the stores and on our bookshelves. But reading such books is a very different thing than listening to someone' s lived experience. Because we have stopped listening to each other we may even have forgotten how to listen, stopped learning how to recognize meaning and fill ourselves from the ordinary events of our lives. We have become solitary; readers and watchers rather than sharers and participants.”

Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition

“Among other grand achievements, F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism. One of his keenest insights was that, paradoxically, any collectivist system necessarily depends on one individual (or small group) to make key social and economic decisions. In contrast, a system based on individualism takes advantage of the aggregate, or 'collective,' information of the whole society; through his actions each participant contributes his own particular, if incomplete, knowledge-information that could never be tapped by the individual at the head of a collectivist state.”

“The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.”

Persons Used Risk Models Management Sensitive Explanation Assumption Users Participants Risk Management

Author:Avinash Persaud

“The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in fact they were increasing them by creating an agency problem. The agents were more interested in maximising fee income than in protecting the interests of bondholders. That is the verity that was ignored by regulators and market participants alike.”

Facts Problem Interest Risk Creating Financial Income Agents Agency Dimensions Engineers Ignored Reducing Mortgage Participants Fees Diversification Regulators Financial Risk

Author:George Soros

“We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is going on; one result is just as good as another, since each is just something to look at. The latter is bound up with what is going on; its outcome makes a difference to him.”

Looks Differences Results Attitude Bounds Agents Former Outcomes Making A Difference Latter Statistics Indifferent Spectators Participants

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“There are credentials for admission to our democratic society [...]. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in our conversation So we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable. We are not so inclusivist as to tolerate intolerance such as yours.”

“Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot about working in groups, without being unduly submerged in the group.”

Self Sports Teach Groups Integrity Demand Performances Initiative Self Reliance Reliance Participants Submerged

Author:Byron White

“In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion.”

“A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the habits of a community, and the weak ties that hold neighborhoods and clans together. And it endures because a movement's leaders give participants new habits that create a fresh sense of identity and a feeling of ownership.”

Giving Feelings Together Strong Social Grows Community Leader Movement Identity Habit Weak Endure Ties Neighborhood Ownership Acquaintance Participants Clans New Habits

Author:Charles Duhigg

“Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.”

Matter Process Difficult Economic Subjects Economics Investing Objectives Supposed To Be Objectivity Subject Matter Participants

Book:The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market

Source: The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market

“The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.”

People Has Beens States Law Growth Numbers Economy Clear Greater Internet Connections Machines Impact Flaws Squares Participants Fax Fax Machines

Author:Paul Krugman

“The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.”

Evil Battle Good And Evil Fascinating Participants Battle Between Good And Evil

Author:Stephen King

“Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.”

Understanding Decision Active Our Time Passive Spectators Participants Knowledge And Understanding

Book:The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Source: The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

“I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.”

World Kind I Can Stories Use Imagination Subjects Active Monsters Fantastic Appeals Demon Construction My Imagination Like Something Participants

Author:Sam Raimi

“I don't know Bill Clinton as someone who needs to literally sexually harass a woman. I'm sure that he could have found many willing participants.”

Knows Needs Found Willing Bills Clinton Sexually Participants

Author:Gennifer Flowers

“Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to display its characteristic physiognomy: skeletal hands, sharpened noses, tight-drawn cheek bones, the bared teeth of a rictus smile and the fixed, narrowed gaze of men in a state of controlled fear.”

Men States Hands Fighting Nations Class Successful Stress Bones Teeth Noses Fixed Characteristics Controlled Display Cheeks Participants Repetitive Unrelenting Physiognomy

Book:The First World War

Source: The First World War

“In life, be a participant, not a spectator.”

Motivational Life Is Sports Spectators Participants

Author:Lou Holtz

“In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life - the plants and animals that inhabit the earth - has evolved merely to regulate the chemistry of the biosphere. Humans are insignificant participants, far less important to the life cycle than termites. Even the imbalance that we have created by adding massive quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere may be brought back to acceptable levels by other organisms functioning in their capacity to correct excesses.”

Source: The Rammed Earth House

“I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words, I believe that evolution, including the principle of natural selection, is one of the tools used by God to create mankind. Mankind is then a participant in the creation of the universe itself, so that we have a closed loop. I believe that there is a level on which science and religious metaphor are mutually compatible.”

“What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world”

World Mind Mean Philosophy Body Artist Natural Involved Activity Mountain Photograph Climbing Hiking Observers Mind And Body Natural World Participants Mountain Climbing

Author:Galen

“The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.”

People Has Beens Powerful Numbers Campaigns Penalties Death Penalty Participants Small Numbers Against Death Penalty

Author:Angela Davis

“In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.”

Needs Years Wells Money Company Industry Couple Authority International Chinese Making Money Reports Efficient Participants Shareholders

Author:Daniel Yergin

“With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's overthrow of repressive state socialism. What an invaluable guide to the elusive exhilaration that motivated the actors and captivated all of us who followed the transformation with such hope! We can appreciate neither the ebullience of 1989 nor the disappointment with the quotidian reality that followed without understanding Kenney's 'carnival.'”

“A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)”

Mind Moving Rooms Business Meetings Speed Bored Participants

Author:Dale Dauten

“The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.”

Father Son Essence Property Relative Participants

Author:William Ames

“A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there. It is an active participant in those occurrences. Indeed, by virtue of its underlying and enveloping presence, the place may even be felt to be the source, the primary power that expresses itself through the various events that unfold there.”

Humans May Culture Felt Virtue Land Events Particular Source Various Active Setting Settings Primaries Passive Participants

Book:The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World

Source: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World

“We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.”

Responsibility Smart Responsible Guarantees Taking Responsibility Connecting Participants Guarantees That Collaborators

Author:Howard Rheingold

“Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.”

Animal Knowing Violence Vegan Exploitation Hideous Participants

Author:Gary L. Francione

“As Earth warriors, we choose to be participants in the ancient battle between good and evil. On our side stand the waters and wind, and all things wild and of the Earth. On the other side, consumed with greed and in persuit of power, control and money, stand all the dark forces that lay waste to Her.”

Earth Evil Force Sides Water Dark Wind Battle Waste All Things Lays Greed Ancient Warrior Good And Evil Consumed Participants Dark Forces Battle Between Good And Evil

Author:Rod Coronado

“A stable movement requries a healthy, reciprocal I.O.U. flow among its participants. Don't keep a careful tally.”

Movement Healthy Flow Careful Stable Participants Reciprocal

Author:Morton Blackwell

“Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position.”

Games Psychology Position Higher Psychological Tournaments Participants Susceptibility

Author:Mikhail Tal

“There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the concrete lineaments of how we happen exist in this time and place. We are participants in a dynamic system and we know its profile only by its action in organizing how we interact together and how we see our own selves. "The truth is the whole," and the whole is a system of living energy: our life as human and historical spirits.”

Knows Humans Self Whole Happens Truth Action Together Spirit Energy Our Lives Truth Is Pure Absolutes Historical Concrete Standpoint Profile Participants Absolute Truth

Author:Kenny Smith

“In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can't happen without us and nobody can do it for us.”

World Reality Happens Can Do Knowledge Learning Activity Shapes Skills Management Active Planning New World Expertise Participants

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

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

“When I create, I feel that I am a participant in the grand pageant of life, a part of the ongoing creative engine of the universe. I don't know if that feeling is enough to replace the solace of religion in the lives of most people, but it is for me.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Enough Feelings Universe Creative Engines Ongoing Solace Participants Pageant

Author:Greg Graffin

“Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.”

Groups Identity Participants Cooperating Group Identity

Author:Clay Shirky

“Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.”

Firsts Law Effects Average Definitions Curious Participants

Book:Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together

Source: Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together

“Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.”

Spectators Participants

Book:Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber

Source: Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber

“To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means ‘common.’)”

Writing Mean Speak Common Share Communication Roots Communicate Discourse Participants

Book:The Language War

Source: The Language War

“In general, 'the market' is smarter than the smartest of its individual participants.”

Individual Smarter Participants

Book:The Seven Fat Years: And How to Do It Again

Source: The Seven Fat Years: And How to Do It Again

“I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.”

Play Faces Groups Visuals Online Links Connecting Face To Face Participants Gamer Gaming Audio Audio Visual

Author:Gary Gygax

“Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.”

People Want Groups Members Aim Civics Participants

Book:Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

Source: Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

“Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are no longer aware that this is true. They think of food as an agricultural product, perhaps, but they do not think of themselves as participants in agriculture. They think of themselves as 'consumers.'”

Thinking Ends Economy Products Birth Drama Eating Consumers Agriculture Participants Annuals

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays

“If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport.”

Ifs Giving Book Would Be Reading Literature Sports Conversation Pages Cease Intimate Spite Reviews Bells Spectators Participants Mute Degenerates Resonance Monologues Book Review

Author:Patricia Hampl

Needs Form Views Creatures Over It Reverence Rulers Participants

Author:Larry Dossey

“It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.”

Needs Home Government Belief Understanding Greater Equal Our Society Workplace Participants

Author:Emma Watson

“The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of [humanity] as a whole and in the destiny of their city in particular; for their acts in which freedom was united with destiny have contributed to the destiny in which they participate. They are guilty, not of committing the crimes of which their group is accused, but of contributing to the destiny in which these crimes happened.”

Whole Humanity United Cities Destiny Happened Groups Crime Particular Citizens Committed Guilty Existential Accused Participants Contributing Not Guilty

Author:Paul Tillich

“Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans. Much of the game's appeal, as a conversation piece, lies in the opportunity the fan gets to back up opinions and arguments with convincing figures, and it is entirely possible that more American boys have mastered long division by dealing with batting averages than in any other way.”

Way Long Lying Opportunity Games Sports Opinion Boys Pieces Fans Figures Conversation Argument Baseball Average Available Appeals Statistics Division Convincing Participants Batting

Author:Leonard Koppett

“Stated in the simplest terms, the recognized solution to the problem of foodborne illness is a comprehensive prevention strategy that involves all participants in the food system, domestic and foreign, doing their part to minimize the likelihood of harmful contamination. And that is the strategy mandated by FSMA. It is not a strategy that assumes we can achieve a zero-risk food supply, but it is a strategy grounded in the conviction that we can better protect consumers and the economic vigor of the food system if everyone involved implements reasonably available measures to reduce risk.”

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