“The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.” WritingMeanDesireConsciousnessSourcePrimariesPeculiarOriginalityPrimary Source Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live.” WantPleasureSituationDangerousDangerSourceCreaturesAnxietyDestructionOriginalsPrimariesImpulseMotiveDestructiveLiving CreaturesWill To LiveDangerous Situations Author:Wilhelm Reich
“Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.” GrowthEnvironmentSourceEnvironmentalPopulationPrimariesDamagePopulation GrowthOverpopulationPrimary SourceEnvironmental Damage Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you.” IfsPainMotivationEasySourceChecksPrimariesTherapyThings To DoInjuryLinksAllowingAvoidingCredibilityThumbsDon't TrustDubiousBloggersEasy ThingsPrimary Source Author:Ben Goldacre
“What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.” ThinkingTryingMaterialsSourceFormerPrimariesLibrarianPrimary Source Author:Theresa Breslin
“And how can we ever again succeed in educating children to become moral men and women if, in America's public schools, we consciously deny them all religious instruction, and deny them access to that primary source of morality, God's own word. The Bible is the one book from which they are expressly not allowed to be taught.” IfsMenChildrenBookSchoolAmericaReligionReligiousMoralTaughtSourceMoralitySucceedMen And WomenDenyAccessPrimariesInstructionPublic SchoolPrimary SourceEducating Children Author:Pat Buchanan
“I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.” UseReadingMaterialsSourcePrimariesBiographiesPrimary SourceReading Biographies Author:Nancy Horan
“A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand simple. A theory, on the other hand, if true, has all the characteristics of a fact except that its verification is possible only by indirect, remote, and difficult means.” IfsMeanFactsHandsDifficultSimpleTheorySourcePrimariesAppealsCharacteristicsPropositionsIndirectVerificationPrimary Source Book:Philosphical Discussions Source: Philosphical Discussions
“I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.” ShouldBookReadingSourcePrimariesPrimary Source Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question "Who am I?" recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: "Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not." The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.” KnowsWarSoulHateEvilIndividualNationsAnswersAttitudeEmotionalSourceProjectsNegativeWho I AmPrimariesFrustrationRejectsIntoleranceBewilderedNegative AttitudeUnansweredPrimary Source Author:Carson McCullers
“I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.” ValuesSourceMiserablePrimariesValidationPrimary Source Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and understand. Climate change is probably the most important thing that's ever happened, and yet people's understanding of it and its history remains a little fuzzy.” PeopleLooksLittlesMadeImportantUnderstandingGoalHappenedSourceRemainsImportant ThingsClimateClimate ChangeAvailablePrimariesFuzzyPrimary Source Author:Bill McKibben
“It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.” KnowsStageSourceCancerPrimariesTreatmentDetectionPrimary Source Book:Mortality Source: Mortality
“Oil is essential for a modern, industrial society. It's unique, first of all, because it's the primary source, at 40 percent, of the world's entire supply of energy, and it's irreplaceable in the transportation field; it provides 98 percent of world transportation energy.” WorldFirstsEnergyModernFieldsSourceEssentialsUniquePercentOilPrimariesTransportationIrreplaceablePrimary Source Author:Michael Klare
“I think smart aggregation is a service to readers. And we do it, too ... . Whether it's a politics page and you want Dan Balz to tell you what is he reading, what does he think are the smartest articles today on the elections or the primaries. So, I think aggregation is great ... . So I'm all for aggregation. And the more eyeballs we can get to our content, the better. We do want readers to be educated and to understand the difference between, what is a source that you can trust as opposed to just rumors out there. And the difference between just repurposing content and not crediting it.” ThinkingWantDoeTodayReadingDifferencesSourceReaderPagesSmartElectionEducatedPrimariesArticlesRumorEyeballs Author:Katharine Weymouth
“You might be a redneck if your primary source of income is the pawn shop.” IfsMightSourceIncomePrimariesShopsRedneckPawnsYou Might Be A Redneck IfPrimary SourcePawn Shops Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary sources for the family history, often without knowing it. I think if she'd been a son, she would have been referenced more.” IfsThinkingFirstsHas BeensFatherKnowingSonSourceDrawsPrimariesBiographiesFamily HistoryEleanorBiographersEngelsPrimary Source Author:Rachel Holmes
“If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs.” IfsWellsLittlesCoursesFoundBlackInformationMaterialsSourceEasierLuckyProjectsLettersDifficultyCome UpHolesMemoirPrimariesNonfictionInherentDiariesBlack HolePrimary Source Author:Debra Dean
“It was a great challenge to reconstruct Gypsy Rose Lee life, and my interviews with her sister [June Havoc] proved invaluable. It's not often that writers have access to living primary source material; this was the only person who experienced life on the vaudeville circuit with Gypsy during the 1920s, and who saw her perform at Minsky's Burlesque in the 1930s. She knew things that no one else could ever possibly know.” KnowsPersonsChallengesSawsMaterialsSourceRoseAccessPrimariesInterviewsJuneGypsyCircuits1930sInvaluableHavocVaudevilleBurlesquePrimary Source Author:Karen Abbott
“The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be.” SourceSettingSettingsPrimariesPrimary Source Author:David B. Coe
“There are literally a thousand works with the title Malcolm X in them. There are over 350 films and over 320 web-based educational resources with the title Malcolm X, yet the vast majority of them are based on secondary literatures, that is, not on primary source material.” FilmLiteratureMaterialsSourceThousandResourcesMajorityEducationalPrimariesTitlesPrimary Source Author:Manning Marable
“Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.” PeopleWaySometimesSocialTechnologyMediaInformationSourceTownsConstantPlantSocial MediaEmploymentPrimariesConcreteGlobalizationManufacturingPrimary Source Author:Barack Obama
“The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.” YearsKindLittlesReasonGovernmentInterestSimpleFailingSourceCostWasteBenefitsProjectsTestsVotePressureCourtHeavyCampaignsSupremeOptimisticPrimariesContributionSupreme CourtLegislatorsBeing OptimisticContributorsPrimary SourceCampaign Contributions Author:Robert H. Frank
“The most effective CEOs have a primary source for tracking their markets. They meet with their teams frequently enough to keep innovation flowing, to reduce and focus costs, to be energized. They create a tight agenda and they set high goals.” EnoughGoalFocusTeamSourceCostInnovationPrimariesAgendasCeoTrackingPrimary SourceHigh Goals Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“Government's the primary source of prosperity for you, if you're on the left. And if you believe that business exists to kill you, if you believe that business exists to poison you, then government is a source of prosperity for you.” IfsBelieveGovernmentLeftSourceProsperityPrimariesPoisonIf You BelievePrimary Source Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.” LoveLifeHeartWarTruthHatePeaceAttitudeClassSourceConfusionPrimariesPositive AttitudeDominationCravingUbuntuAntagonism Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.” JesusChristianitySourcePrimariesAppealsResurrectionEasterIncarnationCrucifixionJesus ResurrectionEaster ResurrectionResurrection Of Jesus ChristChristian EasterChrists ResurrectionEaster InspirationalPrimary SourceJesus Christ EasterCrucifixion Of Christ Author:Kenneth Scott Latourette
“Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.” CenturyInformationSourceHistoricalCriticsPrimariesResurrectionBiblicalDocumentsTestamentNew Testament19th CenturyReliability Author:Josh McDowell
“Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.” WantBookEnoughPhilosophyEyeLiteratureInterestMy OwnFictionSourceHistoricalMy FavoriteTheologyContemporaryPrimariesGenreRelevantEssaysAntiquityOld BooksGenre IsPrimary Source Author:Marilynne Robinson
“In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.” YearsStatesTodayPastLostUnitedMillionsUnited StatesSourcePercentAgingNineIncomePrimariesFarmsFarmersElsewhereFarmingRanchersPrimary SourceFamily FarmsFarmers And Ranchers Author:Tom Vilsack