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“The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.”

Long Sides Subjects Demand Reflection Clouds Intellect Leisure Thick Solitary Self Reflection Daily Business

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is suggesting that the more that you demand people's external attention, the less chance you are allowing them to dip into the default mode where daydreams and reflection happen - and lot of great ideas are not going to come from the brute force of work but from personal life experience. Mind-wandering seems to be essential to the creative process, and I don't think a lot of businesses are aware of that fact.”

“For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly grounded ideas about the moral and political demands of human life. Margaret Mead saw mid-twentieth-century anthropology as engaged in a project no less ambitious than Kant's own, and her Terry Lectures on Continuities in Cultural Evolution provide an excellent point to enter into her reflections.”

“The demands of the economy, and more recently those of political correctness and the diktat against ever offending anyone, are not conducive to a classroom or university seminar climate in which genuinely free and critical reflection on how to live prospers.”

Political Economy Demand Reflection Climate University Critical Classroom Political Correctness Correctness Offending Seminars Critical Reflection

Author:David E. Cooper

“No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything.”

May Science Understanding Knowledge Advice Hard Work Demand Reflection Careful Assumption Consideration Peculiar Engineers Deliberate Pretentious Incapacity New Work

Author:John B. Jervis

“Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.”

Difficult Serious Demand Research Reflection Chess Zealous

Author:Wilhelm Steinitz

“But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper sentiment; and a false relish may frequently be corrected by argument and reflection. There are just grounds to conclude, that moral beauty partakes of this latter species, and demands the assistance of our intellectual faculties, in order to give it a suitable influence on the human mind.”

Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

“Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.”

Giving Persons Success Games Difficult Serious Demand Research Reflection Slavery Bottom Chess Hearted Zealous Faint Hearted

Author:Wilhelm Steinitz

“The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.”

Humans Art Culture Simple Existence Style Demand Highest Reflection Mature Human Existence Plenitude

Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order