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“You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of being.”

Thinking States Problem Awareness Particular Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with opposed ideologies in fruitful debate. The lively narratives, based on the author's experiences of working with various groups interested in using philosophical tools to clarify their thought and action, will engage a wide range of readers.”

“The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science; the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.”

“If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question, and thereby begging the real one.”

“The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we have radio telescopes here on Earth because they see Earth as it was 1,000 years ago. Nothing can travel faster than light, so however good their instruments they can't see in affect the future. So there is no particular reason they should be sending us messages at this time.”

Knows Should Years Reason Problem Light Earth Particular Civilization Messages Years Ago Instruments Radio Faster Telescopes Light Years

Author:Paul Davies

“Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.”

World Needs May Soul Problem Age Particular Concerned Aspiration Remedy Requirements Centre Affliction Present Day Deliberation Baha Baha I

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final . Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.”

Firsts War States Problem Certain Individual Cases Military Particular Constant Finals Data Repeats

Book:Precepts and Judgments

Source: Precepts and Judgments

“The precision of their goals allows conceptual artists to be satisfied that they have produced one or more works that achieve a particular purpose... a problem solved can free him to pursue new goals.”

Problem Purpose Artist Goal Achieve Particular Satisfied Pursue Precision New Goal

Book:Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

Source: Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

“In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.”

Source: The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioural Science

“Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation - e.g., the problem of determining which sequence of words a given utterance encodes. Since, in the general case, transducer outputs underdetermine perceptual analyses, we can think of the solution of such problems as involving processes of nondemonstrative inference. In particular, we can think of each input system as a computational mechanism which projects and confirms a certain class of hyputheses on the basis of a certain body of data.”

“When one forgets the distinction between method and truth, one becomes foolishly prone to respond to any question that cannot be answered from the vantage of one's particular methodological perch by dismissing it as nonsensical, or by issuing a promissory note guaranteeing a solution to the problem at some juncture in the remote future, or by simply distorting the question into one that looks like the kind one really can answer after all.”

Looks Kind Problem Answers Forget Particular Solutions Method Notes Distinction Nonsensical Juncture

Author:David Bentley

“So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.”

Knows Want Needs Mean Problem Eye Sports Particular Areas Responsible Manage Department Being Responsible

Author:Dusty Baker

“When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems. You will notice at times that the new life isn't what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn't how I define prayer. I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.”

Helping Problem Life Is Order Prayer Mystery Talent Events Particular Tests Asking Filled Embrace Gods Will Guarantees Inner Strength New Life Items Guarantees That

Author:Bernie Siegel

“Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.”

Art Sometimes Problem Artist Generations Particular Periods Obsession Obsessed

Author:Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

“As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about particular individuals and specific situations usually have the opposite effect. By giving unwieldy problems a human face, they also bring them down to a human-and thus manageable-scale.”

Source: Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times

“And many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem cause the science doesn't back them up. And in particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there's been zero warming. None whatsoever.”

Years Problem Lasts Causes Particular Data Global Warming Zero Satellites Alarmists

Author:Ted Cruz

“Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mathematicians admire elegance and simplicity above all else, and the ultimate goal in solving a problem is to find the method that does the job in the most efficient manner. Though the major accolades are given to the individual who solves a particular problem first, credit (and gratitude) always goes to those who subsequently find a simpler solution.”

“Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.”

Thinking Helping Problem Literature Study Particular Mathematics Abstract Problem Solvers Abstract Thinking

Author:Kathryn Lasky

“Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.”

Soul Problem Age Particular Aspiration Baha Baha I

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“A bank needs models to measure risk. The problem, however, is that any one bank can measure its risk, but it also has to know what the risk taken by other banks in the system happens to be at any particular moment.”

Knows Needs Moments Problem Happens Taken Risk Particular Models Scholes

Author:Myron Scholes

“The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.”

Needs Children Has Beens Problem Mother Father Born Attitude Teaching Particular Function

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“San Francisco is where gay fantasies come true, and the problem the city presents is whether, after all, we wanted these particular dreams to be fulfilled--or would we have preferred others? Did we know what price these dreams would exact? Did we anticipate the ways in which, vivid and continuous, they would unsuit us for the business of daily life? Or should our notion of daily life itself be transformed?”

Knows Way Should Problem Dream Wanted Cities Fantasy Particular Gay Notion Daily Life Transformed Fulfilled Vivid San Francisco Anticipate

Book:States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America

Source: States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America

“In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without the intervention of a particular man, objects of a uniformity and precision that show no individual variation and have no personal charm. The problem is to decide whether the objects of machine production can possess the essential qualities of art.”

“One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Problem Language Force Levels Issues Particular Tvs Lows Wide Abstract Complexity Vocabulary Outlook Grammar Watching Tv Low Level Abstract Thinking

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The problem of the universal is difficult in every case. The universal and the particular can never be separated; they always go hand in hand.”

Problem Hands Difficult Cases Particular Universal Hand In Hand

Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

“There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.”

Way Problem Quality Family Generations Particular Manifestation Characteristics

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Some friendships in life sustain themselves only at a particular life stage, products of some mutual developmental problem to be resolved together, or of some external circumstance, like being housed in the same dormitory in boarding school. Others grow out of a deeper spiritual and philosophical affinity, which continues throughout life.”

Problem School Together Spiritual Grows Stage Particular Products Circumstances Philosophical Deeper Mutual Affinity Developmental Dormitory

Author:Jill Ker Conway

“It should be pointed out that none of Cardew's works ever gave total freedom to the performer. The instructions were a guide which focused each individual's creative instinct on a problem to be solved - how to interpret a particular system of notation using one's own musical background and attitudes.”

Should Problem Individual Attitude Creative Particular Instinct Musical Focused Guides Backgrounds Performers Instruction

Author:John Tilbury

“The World Series is something that rarely gets to a number of venues in professional baseball. And that's one problem because we want the fan base of particular cities to participate in the World Series, even though there may be a lull in the particular performance of the regional team.”

World Want May Problem Numbers Cities Team Fans Particular Performances Baseball Series Venues World Series Lulls

Author:Scott Boras

“The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.”

Feels Problem Emotional Particular Judgment Criticism Visuals Conveying

Author:David Denby

“Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve particular practical problems. In this it is more closely related to art or craft.”

Art Use Problem Law Study Events Design Particular Solve Practicals Crafts Related Engineering

Author:Ove Arup

“Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of being something or somebody in particular.Of all the affections the love of oneself comes first. Light and love are impersonal.When you do not think yourself to be this or that, all conflict ceases. Any attempt to do something about your problems is bound to fail, for what is caused by desire can be undone only in freedom from desire. You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions.”

“If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.”

Ifs Problem Reality Strong Chance Accepting Particular Areas Roots Difficulty

Author:Steve Pavlina

“Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of entering into or continuing in fellowship of a denomination or a local church.... Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have not yet decided to follow Christ.”

“Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep understanding of what problem these theories attempt to solve. They learn but little of the evolution of evolutionary theory.”

Littles Long Problem Understanding Students Taught Particular Theory Evolution Solve Acquire Biologist Theory Of Evolution Deep Understanding

Book:Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

“Usually my 'a-ha' moments are when I'm not trying to think of how to solve a particular problem.”

Thinking Trying Moments Problem Particular Solve

Author:Tony Hsieh

“Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.”

Made Problem Wanted Process Chance Saws Fields Particular Becoming Bird Scientist Luck Solve Islands Biology Assistants Galapagos Islands

Author:David J. Anderson

“Every Bass Communion track is based on a single sound source. Increasingly I find that I'm really interested in taking a particular sound and it's almost like solving a problem. If I have a sound, the problem is how can I create a piece of music from this one sound source?”

Ifs Problem Sound Pieces Particular Source Track Communion Bass

Author:Steven Wilson

“In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe it has always been that way. Maybe the only way he or she can be acknowledged is to be connected with some movement, be it religious or political.”

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Author:Gerald Stern

“Another bigger problem is the fact that these incidents of police violence continue to occur because far too often the officers on the force rally around the one who committed the act of violence and, in this particular instance, may have engaged in a cover-up that itself should be prosecuted.”

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Author:Hakeem Jeffries

“I would like to undermine the stereotype of "strict philosophy." J.L. Austin remarked that, when philosophy is done well, it's all over by the bottom of the first page. I take him to have meant that the real work comes in setting up the problem with which you are dealing, and thus getting your reader to take particular things for granted.”

Firsts Wells Real Done Philosophy Problem Particular Reader Pages Bottom Setting Settings Granted Strict Stereotype Austin Real Work

Author:Philip Kitcher

“So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with particular kinds of problems. I don't think we should think of Haydn or Mozart or Dickens or George Eliot in these terms.”

Thinking Should Kind Problem Artist Fighting Term Deals Doubt Particular Source Artistic Neurosis Dickens Eliot Incompleteness

Author:Philip Kitcher

“There are different interpretations of the problem of universals. I understand it as the problem of giving the truthmakers of propositions to the effect that a certain particular is such and such, e.g. propositions like 'this rose is red'. Others have interpreted it as a problem about the ontological commitments of such propositions or a problem about what those propositions mean.”

Giving Mean Different Problem Certain Effects Particular Commitment Red Rose Interpretation Propositions Different Interpretations Roses Are Red

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.”

Wells Facts Problem School Numbers Particular Mathematical France Mathematical Problems

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“I mean, why do people fight over sports? Because of the framework, the schematic of sports, those particular people seize upon these opportunities to be violent. And the number one problem using the same framework would be religion.”

People Mean Problem Would Be Fighting Opportunity Sports Numbers Particular Violent Framework

Author:Ian MacKaye

“If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.”

Ifs Thinking Made Self Problem Form Attention Issues Focus Failing Particular Currents Neglect Scope Self Contained Global Issues

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining.”

Has Beens Problem Spiritual Practice Struggle Issues Teaching Particular Survival Including Related No Problem Monk Involvement Joining Nun Tibetan Spiritual Practice Tibet

Author:Dalai Lama

“I think that all countries of the region should join their efforts in the fight against a common threat - terrorism in general and ISIS in particular. It concerns Iran as well, it concerns Saudi Arabia (although the two countries do not get along very well, ISIS threatens both of them), it concerns Jordan, it concerns Turkey (in spite of certain problems regarding the Kurdish issue), and, in my opinion, everybody is interested in resolving the situation. Our task is to join these efforts to fight against a common enemy.”

“The Far East is of particular significance for us in terms of this region's priority development. Over the last few years, let us say even over the last decades, we were faced with many problems here. We paid little attention to this territory although it deserves a lot more of it, because it concentrates great wealth as well as opportunities for Russia's future development.”

Years Wells Littles Problem Lasts Opportunity Term Wealth Attention Particular Development Deserve Paid East Decades Priorities Russia Regions Significance Territory Future Development

Author:Vladimir Putin

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