“The buildup of negative auric vibrations initially impairs our ability to perceive psychically. They can eventually cause us to become ill. Most serious illnesses, including many types of cancer, are the result of auric toxicity.” CausesAbilityResultsSeriousTypeNegativeIncludingIllCancerIllnessPerceiveVibrationsToxicitySerious Illness Author:Frederick Lenz
“On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.” LifeEnoughLevelsResultsStageSeriousSceneRegardEverydayCastsTendenciesAssumptionThemeConsiderationMaskEveryday LifeProceduresParticipantsFarce Book:A Question of Upbringing: Book 1 of A Dance to the Music of Time Source: A Question of Upbringing: Book 1 of A Dance to the Music of Time
“A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.” ResultsPlansRiskSeriousDefinitionsPlanningOptimisticUnderestimateScenarios Author:Daniel Kahneman
“The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns.” StatesValuesNationsUnitedResultsUnited StatesImpossibleRiskEffectsSeriousCostConsequenceDollarsFinancialCongressIllCreditConclusionDamageSenateContemplatingLegislationDefaultDisruptionLeading MeFinancial Markets Author:Ronald Reagan
“Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a serious study of how story affects the human mind. Results repeatedly show that our attitudes, fears, hopes, and values are strongly influenced by story. In fact, fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than writing that is specifically designed to persuade through argument and evidence.” WritingMindHumansFactsStoriesShowsSeemsAbleLastsValuesBeliefResultsAttitudeFictionStudyPsychologyEffectsSeriousEvidenceArgumentDecadesHuman MindPersuasive Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.” ThinkingMenYearsAmericaSpeakGivenBlackMy OwnResultsFourSeriousExerciseCourtInjusticeJailChicagoFour YearsPeersBehalfInabilityJuryCourt System Author:Bobby Seale
“If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers.” IfsShouldTryingMayImportantRunningFoundDifficultAnswersResultsEffortWonderSeriousPhysicsComplexityFascinatingPhysicistAmbiguityPerplexityLayman Author:Edward Condon
“What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.” MeanEndsResultsTroubleSeriousPhasesAxesFranco Author:Bill Vaughan
“The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.” MindPlayResultsSeriousExpressionReposeExertionGrotesqueFrivolous Book:The Stones of Venice Source: The Stones of Venice
“Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as "political correctness", constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper functioning of democracy. It is important to hear the views of all persons,including the "silent majority", and to give heed to the weaker voices.” GivingPersonsImportantSelfSometimesPoliticalSocialVoiceResultsViewsDemocracySeriousPressureMajoritySilentIncludingObstaclesCensorshipPolitical CorrectnessHeedCorrectnessIntimidationSocial PressureSelf CensorshipSilent Majority Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for theAtlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future.... Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East.” PeopleThinkingShouldWarMovingTermResultsOpinionMorningWorryEffectsSeriousEssentialsOceanEuropeUltimateSpeedEastThese DaysThank GodEvery MorningUnderestimatePublic OpinionTerrificImplicationsPacificNeutralityPacific Ocean Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.” ResultsMistakeSeriousDemandConstitutionAgreeCourtIncludingGrantedAbortionScholarFramers Author:Ronald Reagan
“From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers of the world, like the Mississippi, great cultures have developed, while over the course of the centuries the prosperity of countless societies has been linked to these waterways. Today, however, the great fluvial systems of every continent are exposed to serious threats, often as a result of man's activity and decisions.” MenWorldHumansHas BeensTodayCultureCoursesWaterNaturalDecisionResultsCenturySeriousActivityResourcesRiversThreatEnvironmentalProsperityPrimariesExposedContinentsIndispensableLinkedNatural ResourcesMississippi Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.” NeedsRealPhilosophyProcessResultsComedySeriousStrictSerious BusinessStrict Rules Author:Christoph Waltz
“The Great Depression was not a sign of the failure of monetary policy or a result of the failure of the market system as was widely interpreted. It was instead a consequence of a very serious government failure, in particular a failure in the monetary authorities to do what they'd initially been set up to do.” GovernmentResultsPolicyParticularSeriousAuthorityConsequenceMonetaryGreat DepressionMonetary Policy Author:Milton Friedman
“Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of course, can produce serious, irreparable harm” PeopleSufferingValuesCoursesResultsSuccessfulProduceSeriousActivityConsequenceDifficultyHarmCapabilityAccurateCredibilityEfficacySelf EfficacyOverestimateIrreparableAppraisalIrreparable Harm Author:Albert Bandura
“Very few people realize the damage even one mercury vapor light can inflict on birds, air quality and human sleep patterns. It a serious problem that is rapidly growing and it will take all of us to take action before we see results.” PeopleHumansProblemLightActionRealizingSleepResultsQualityGrowingAirSeriousBirdPatternsDamageMercuryVaporAir Quality Author:Will Young
“Comedy is the result of what's happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It's embarrassing. The individual elements have to be straight-faced, serious, realistic with a firm basis. What makes it comedy is a somewhat shifted way to put it together.” PeopleIfsWayTogetherIndividualResultsComedySeriousElementsHappeningsBasesFirmRealisticEmbarrassing Author:Christoph Waltz
“I think in my case winning fans came as a result of winning tournaments. Certainly, I didn't have too many supporters when I came on Tour. I didn't look like an athlete, I was overweight, had a crew cut, baggy clothes and on top of that I didn't smile much. I was very serious about my game, literally and figuratively the heavy.” ThinkingLooksGamesWinningResultsCasesCuttingFansSeriousClothesAthleteHeavyCrewSupporterTournamentsOverweightBaggy Clothes Author:Jack Nicklaus
“For more than a hundred years much complaint has been made of the unmethodical way in which schools are conducted, but it is only within the last thirty that any serious attempt has been made to find a remedy for this state of things. And with what result? Schools remain exactly as they were.” WayYearsHas BeensMadeStatesSchoolLastsResultsSeriousHundredThirtyRemedyComplaints Author:John Amos Comenius
“I switched to my new trainer Abel Sanchez to add versatility to my game. I'm coming to fight a serious fight. If I knock him out, it will just put another feather in my cap. I'm predicting a win, but I never look for the knockout because that's not my game plan. If my punches result in a knockout, so be it.” IfsLooksFightingGamesWinningResultsPlansSeriousAddFeathersCapsTrainersPredictingGame PlanVersatilityAbelKnockouts Author:Tavoris Cloud
“An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.” TwoMomentsBodyHouseGivenResultsSeriousOfficeThirdsMajorityConvictionRepresentativesOffenseAccusedRemovalHouse Of Representatives Author:Gerald R. Ford
“Enthusiasm is my superpower. One might say that confidence yields the same result. I disagree. Confidence is about yourself, enthusiasm is about something else. Confidence is impressive, but enthusiasm is infectious. Confidence is serious, enthusiasm is fun.” MightFunResultsSeriousEnthusiasmYieldAbout YourselfDisagreeImpressiveSuperpower Author:Tina Roth-Eisenberg
“Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.” ResultsKnownSeriousResearchOptimist Author:Alex Haley
“In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.” PeoplePersonsEnoughWholeProblemHappensResultsSecretCompanyShareBuildingSeriousDiedTraditionalSoftwareWitchcraftGuardedGuarding Author:Linus Torvalds
“In people's minds, I'm a comic, so it took a lot of time before I was recognized as a director. I had to be patient until the public accepted me. As a result, my early films didn't get a lot of attention. As a serious film actor, things didn't take off, either. Only my comic talents were recognized.” PeopleMindFilmActorsResultsAttentionTalentSeriousDirectorsPatientAcceptedComicBe PatientFilm Actors Author:Takeshi Kitano