“I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance.” MenChanceEducationSituationStudentsSourceLowsDeterminationTestsUniversityGreat MenGradesYieldTake A ChanceTraumatic Experiences Author:Edwin Land
“Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.” RealityOrderUniverseEvilExistenceOne ThingSourceSucceedElementsLowsPermanenceContinuation Book:The Guide for the Perplexed Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“Our guys working this area for a living all believe Chalabi and all those guys in their Bond Street suits are charlatans. To take them for a source of anything except a fantasy trip would be a real stretch. But it's an article of faith among those with no military experience that the Iraqi military is low-hanging fruit.” BelieveRealWould BeGuyFantasyStreetsMilitarySourceLowsAreasFruitSuitsArticlesCharlatansMilitary Experience Author:Scott Ritter
“When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.” FirstsChildrenFoundFictionInformationSourceLowsScience FictionStreamsBotheredRadarInformation Science Author:William Gibson
“Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.” DifferentSelfSelf EsteemBuildingSourceSkillsLowsWeightSelf WorthEsteemDietsLow Self EsteemBuilding Up Author:Arabella Weir
“Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe, Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? I know thy parentage is base and low: Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.” KnowsMenArtFoundWealthPoorMinesSourceFineLowsTheeDirtyBlissWoeBane Author:George Herbert
“The brain's preferred source of fuel is glucose/carbohydrates. And when you go on a low-carb/high-protein diet, your brain is using low-octane fuel. You'll be a little groggy, a little grumpy.” LittlesBrainSourceGoes OnLowsDietsFuelProteinGrumpyCarbsCarbohydratesGlucose Author:Jack LaLanne
“In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvelous as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then make memory into a problem? Be bland about them; do not divide them into high and low, inner and outer, lasting and transient. Go beyond, go back to the source, go to the self that is the same whatever happens.” NeedsGivingSelfProblemLightHappensRememberPeaceMemoriesConsciousnessVisionSpecialFlowerSourceLowsSightImportanceThings HappenLastingDividesMarvelousTransientWhatever HappensBlandHighs And LowsMaking Memories Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases of the stage. But this day is fading...We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth” YearsMayHas BeensEndsFormWealthStageDivineFlowerSourceLimitsLateLowsDancingMereGloriousThis DayPhasesInwardProfessionalismFadingFrivolousProficiencyMay Flowers Author:Ruth St. Denis
“A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.” WorldMaySourceLowsMereSatisfactionBeastOur WorldScholarApes Author:Jeffrey Kluger