“Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life.” MayWalksPracticeForeverRichProduceHabitHealthyFamiliarHarvestProfitableWalks Of Life Book:Letters and Addresses, Source: Letters and Addresses,
“Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own experience to a new way. A revolutionary organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives - agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate.” IfsMenWayNeedsValuesPassionChallengesStepsSecurityProduceCrossesClimatePatternsCurrentsFamiliarBridgesRevolutionaryShakesPassiveNew WaysDiscontentPrevailingAffirmativeOrganizerRules For RadicalsAgitateDisenchantment Author:Saul Alinsky
“An invaluable little book.... What Makes a Terrorist uses standard tools of economics and statistical analysis to get at the truth about terrorism.... Krueger finds one familiar fact in all his numbers. Countries with fewer civil liberties tend to produce more terrorists.” LittlesBookCountryFactsUseNumbersLibertyProduceStandardsEconomicsToolsTerrorismTerroristFamiliarAnalysisFewerCivil LibertiesInvaluable Author:Daniel Finkelstein
“The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.” LooksArtWholeStoriesProblemEyeArtistUniverseBehindsObjectsProducePerceptionWindowSmellSignificantFamiliarSpotsArtisticKitchenCosmosDucksGlimpseSpiralsImplicitVistasSt Francis Of Assisi Author:Aldous Huxley
“Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.” IfsThinkingDoeAbleBitsAcceptingWeekProduceFamiliarEach DayLove Life Book:Reverence for Life Source: Reverence for Life
“What is "credibility"? It's a very familiar notion. It's basically the notion that is central to the Mafia. So suppose say the Godfather produces some kind of edict and says you're going to have to pay protection money.” KindPayProduceNotionProtectionFamiliarCredibilityMafia Author:Noam Chomsky