“I don't know if any genuine meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.” IfsKnowsKindSongResultsMeaningfulGenuineThrowingPeanutsGorillas Author:Tom Waits
“All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established the laws. It is four us to discover them, and to learn the facts by which we can obey them.” FactsLawThreeResultsFourProgressFindingsHundredGenuineYieldAcres Author:Wheeler McMillen
“All genuine progress results from finding new facts” FactsResultsProgressGeniusFindingsGenuine Author:Wheeler McMillen
“When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge and to independently acquired knowledge. To counteract this tendency a special effort is required to transform inherited knowledge into genuine knowledge by revitalizing its original discovery, and to discriminate between the genuine and the spurious elements of what claims to be inherited knowledge.” BodyResultsEffortSpecialElementsResearchDiscoveryClaimsOriginalsGenuineTendenciesCognitive Book:What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies Source: What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies
“Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.” IfsKnowsTryingSelfTogetherRealizingAnswersResultsEffortParticularPoetPeriodsPurePagesMarkFinalsGenuineStatementsGiantsHistorianBootsSooner Or LaterInadequateDissatisfactionConsecutive Author:Wislawa Szymborska
“I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.” IfsThinkingWorldFirstsBelieveResultsCompanyFocusDutyReturnCitizensSolutionsOppositesCome UpGenuineConsumersImprovingShareholdersFiduciary Author:Paul Polman