“In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.” IndividualNationsPeaceHistoryRecordsHistoricalSilentContentment Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!” WantPlayWinningIndividualRecordsNiceSeasonsCupsStanleyPlay To WinStanley Cup Author:Guy Lafleur
“History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.” WayIndividualRecordsConditionsEventsTownsSmall Town Author:Gladys Taber
“Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.” SeemsIndividualRecordsRocksHarderSellsMaking MoneyRock And Roll Author:Conor Oberst
“The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics.” HumansDoneLightIndividualHuman BeingsInterestingBehindsHistoryRecordsSeaDevelopmentOppositesTreatsImportanceRelationMethodWaveDustHuman LifeStatisticsMassiveHistorianGreySurvivingSelectiveOverestimate Author:C. V. Wedgwood
“The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.” RunningIndividualForceMistakeCompanyEconomySuccessfulRecordsFailingMajorsLowsAppreciateFocusedDrivingFinanceFirmLengthSuccess And FailureSystematicUnsuccessfulCounterpartsMarket Economy Author:Robert Haugen
“Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.” WantNeedsIndividualGoalRecordsOne ThingPrideTasteMusicianWho You ArePerformers Author:Scott Weiland
“My hope has always been that each record could have its own audience. Of course, it's awesome to have a cumulative audience for more than one record, but I like the idea that there could be a record that an individual might like.” IdeasMightCoursesIndividualAudienceRecordsCumulative Author:Will Oldham
“I don't want to extend my career for individual records. This is the time to go.” WantIndividualCareersRecords Author:Kumar Sangakkara
“The Beatles are now history, and it would be unhealthy to try to make my way as a former member. I must admit I occasionally listen to our records, but usually it's not deliberate. I'm more concerned with the present, with working out my own individual style and producing something new and worthwhile.” WayTryingWould BeIndividualMy OwnRecordsStyleMembersConcernedWork OutFormerMy WaySomething NewWorthwhileDeliberateUnhealthyIndividual Style Author:George Harrison
“I want to record history through the destiny of individuals who often belong to the least wealthy classes. I do not want to show war in general, nor history with a capital H, but rather the tragedy of a single man, of a family.” MenWantWarShowsIndividualClassDestinyRecordsPhotographyTragedyWealthySingle Man Author:James Nachtwey
“The government can now delve into personal and private records of individuals even if they cannot be directly connected to a terrorist or foreign government. Bank records, e-mails, library records, even the track of discount cards at grocery stores can be obtained on individuals without establishing any connection to a terrorist before a judge. According to the Los Angeles Times, Al Qaeda uses sophisticated encryption devices freely available on the Internet that cannot be cracked. So the terrorists are safe from cyber-snooping, but we're not.” IfsUseGovernmentIndividualRecordsJudgingInternetSafeConnectionsLibraryTrackAvailableConnectedStoresTerroristCardsDevicesLos AngelesAlsMailSophisticatedGroceriesAl QaedaCrackedGrocery StoresDiscountsCyberEncryptionSnooping Author:Molly Ivins
“This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.” MindIndividualRecordsMaterialsNegativeContactAgencyIntelligence Agencies Author:Richard Helms