“Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel.” FeelsFilmCoursesResultsChangedConcernedInstantDigitalConvenientFinesse Author:Graeme Le Saux
“Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.” WayGivingFeelsShouldHelpingActionCertainResultsCompassionYogaConcernedInfiniteKarmaSelflessKarma YogaSelfless Giving Author:Frederick Lenz
“The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with motives than with results.” PeopleInterestResultsConcernedBotherMotivePublic Good Author:Walter E. Williams
“... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he does; and it isonly when he is no longer concerned with them that, suddenly, as a result of work coming from elsewhere, accomplished within the one who did not love him, these barriers, formerly attacked without success, fall futilely.” LoveDoeMatterFallCausesResultsDespairConcernedNo Matter WhatDestroyedAccomplishedBarriersElsewhereFutility Author:Marcel Proust
“We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous. We are concerned with the length of our skirts, with the latest lipstick, with the newest thrill in hats. We are impressed by advertisements that insist we must be alluring; we must adopt a time-consuming coiffure, we must spend hours with the "beautician," we must attend fashion shows. As long as women are preoccupied with nonessentials we shall be afflicted with infantilism, passivity, and the eventual disillusionment that results from trivial, unproductive lives.” LongStillsShowsHoursResultsFashionConcernedVoteSlaveHatsSpokesLengthNarcissismImpressedSuperficialThrillConsumingSkirtsLipstickAdvertisementsDisillusionmentSuperfluousPassivityAlluringTime ConsumingUnproductiveFashion ShowBeauticians Author:Mary Barnett Gilson
“Confronted with such a variety most philosophers try to establish one approach to the exclusion of all others. As far as they are concerned there can only be one true way- and they want to find it. Thus normative philosophers argue that knowledge is a result of the application of certain rules, they propose rules which in their opinion constitute knowledge and reject what clashes with them.” WayWantTryingCertainResultsOpinionApproachConcernedPhilosopherArguingVarietyRejectsApplicationProposeClashExclusion Book:Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being Source: Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being
“The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.” SaidSelfForceResultsAcceptingMeditationBuddhismUnderstoodDiscoveryConcernedGreenSelf DiscoveryDylanMeditatingFuseDaily Meditation Author:Frederick Lenz
“A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.” RealityResultsConcernedPragmatists Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer