“Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood. This opens the way into the Thorned Path, a system, which uses five rose thorns to symbolize the five arts of Witchcraft that one should master. These arts are Herbalist, Fortune-Teller, Spirit Medium, Mystic, and Magician. We call mastering these aspects 'the gathered thorns' --thus the Thorned Path.” WayShouldArtUseSpiritPathFiveBloodProduceMastersAspectRoseFortuneFingersMediumsMagicianWitchcraftMysticThornsEntrancesOld WaysFortune Teller Author:Raven Grimassi
“It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.” RealResultsProduceStrangePaintingApproachAspectAccidentsHolesTriumphFavourPits Author:Bill Vaughan
“If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality.” IfsMaySelfStoriesRealityProduceLessonsAspectSymbolsConsistentManipulationPredictionsRepresentingEnsemble Author:Arthur Koestler
“Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in principle cannot be 'observed' are manipulated to produce a new phenomena [sic] and to investigate other aspects of nature.” RealitySciencePrinciplesProduceEvidenceAspectTestsStrongestRealismEntityHypothesisOntology Author:Ian Hacking
“Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency” SelfProblemProduceBehaviorStandardsAspectReactionsAdoptedPersonal ExperiencesDissatisfactionDysfunctionSelf EfficacyDespondencyBehavior Problems Author:Albert Bandura
“I'm disciplined about writing. I get up every day knowing I have to produce work. I'm less concerned about other aspects of the job, such as the prizes and promotions. Promoting my work can be awkward, unless I feel sociable enough. Prizes encourage me to work harder on my next project.” FeelsWritingEnoughJobsNextKnowingProduceHard WorkProjectsConcernedAspectHarderGet UpPrizeAwkwardPromotingPromotionWork HarderSociable Author:Sefi Atta
“It is a common experience that attempts to solve just one piece of a problem first, then others, and so on, lead to endless involutions. You no sooner solve one aspect of a thing, than another point is out of point. And when you correct that one, something else goes wrong. You go round and round in circles, unable to produce a form that is thoroughly right.” FirstsProblemFormCommonPiecesProduceAspectRoundsSolveCirclesEndlessJust OneOne PieceCommon Experience Author:Christopher Alexander
“If something produces an undue amount of pleasure or undue amount of displeasure, it's going to be judged differently and it's going to be introduced in your narrative with a different size, with a different development. So that is the next element to superimpose on the sequencing element. And in fact, that element is so powerful that very often it can trump the sequencing event, that the sequencing aspect.” IfsDifferentFactsNextPleasurePowerfulEventsProduceDevelopmentTrumpAmountElementsAspectSizeNarrativeJudgedDispleasureSequencing Author:Antonio Damasio
“It's not my intention to be understood. I will continue writing for a readership that is fundamentally local. Because if you want to produce universal writing, you run the risk of losing your local knowledge. Your views are so universalist that the street aspect disappears.” IfsWantWritingRunningViewsRiskStreetsProduceLosingUnderstoodAspectUniversalIntentionDisappearLocalsReadership Author:Sarnath Banerjee