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“It's not enough to have values without vision ; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler . An empowering mission statement deals with both character and competence; what you want to be and what you want to do in your life.”

Want Enough Character Hands Values Deals Vision Missions Be Good What You Want Statements Empowering Competence Mission Statement

Book:First Things First

Source: First Things First

“Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Doubt Treats Jew Expected Statements Sooner Or Later Metaphoric

Author:Bernard Malamud

“Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.”

Years Ends Lying Purpose Existence Proud Office Financial Statements Genes Irrelevant Reminders Irritating Biologist Propagation Year End Financial Statements

Author:Alain de Botton

“Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.”

Men Ideas Reason Political Goal Fate Consequence Independent Statements Contemporary Reasoning Socialist Life Fate

Author:C. Wright Mills

“Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.”

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Book:Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings

Source: Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings

“That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.”

Would Be Claims Prison Statements Prisoner Blasphemy Captivity Prison Guards

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.”

“One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.”

People World Want Has Beens Art Worry Missions Statements Mission Statement

Author:Jim Carrey

“What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.”

Knows Littles Art Done Intellectual Art Is Essence Boxes Circles Statements Squares

Author:Eva Hesse

“Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.”

World Kind Art Happens Fashion Materials Statements Deliberate

Book:Art For Dummies

Source: Art For Dummies

“Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement.”

Needs Art Art Is Profound Statements Works Of Art

Author:Freeman Patterson

“I love a red lip - it's such a powerful statement. It exudes confidence and makes for a bold look.”

Looks Powerful Red Lips Statements Red Lips

Author:Prabal Gurung

“Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.”

Values Choices Partners Statements Our Choices

Author:Warren Farrell

“Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of manipulation, abstraction, and intervention. But now, it is very much on the surface. I like this honesty about its dishonesty. Every photograph has many truths and none. Photographs are ambiguous, no matter how seemingly scientific they appear to be. They are always subject to an uncontrollable context. This is a tired statement, but worth repeating.”

“It's very hard to find men's clothes that do what you want, especially when you go through them as quickly as I do. I need them to be flashy, but I never like to be overdressed. I need to make a statement, but I hate wearing too many clothes.”

Men Want Needs Hard Hate Clothes I Hate What You Want Statements Find Me Flashy

Author:Mika

“As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice.”

Should Important Play Choices Sound Roles Weapons Critical Debate Statements Experts Bites Discourse Sound Bites

Author:David Corn

“The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved in a prolonged capturing of emerging marginal meanings. He feels that he, too, is creative, that he himself is adding to his experience and understanding. Moreover, he wants to confront the work of art many times. He is not easily tired of it, as he would be had he read a purely logical statement. He realizes that the work of art does not merely transmit information; it produces pleasure.”

Source: Creativity: The Magic Synthesis

“It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.”

Doe Made Said God Fall Cat Notes Statements Closest Stalking Sparrows

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.”

Way Want Kind Children Country Given Taught Democratic Meaningful Statements Meaningless Elders Systematic Democratic Country

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully.”

Ifs Thinking Numbers Amount Obvious Statements Assumption Large Numbers Sweeping Small Numbers Implied

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander or Ghengis Khan had never been born, some other individual would have filled his place and executed the design of the Hellenic or Mongolic expansion; but the Alexanders of philosophy and religion, of science and art, seem less expendable; their impact seems less determined by economic challenges and social pressures; and they seem to have a much wider range of possibilities to influence the direction, shape and texture of civilizations.”

“It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't given this election a minute's thought, and it's just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.' Indeed, it's not just sound and honest - it's the ethically responsible thing to do.”

Giving Looks Given Sound Minutes Honest Havens Fairs Vote Responsible Election Strikes Statements Damn Things To Do Voters Not Fair

Author:Jeff Greenfield

“If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.”

Ifs Needs Mean Facts Would Be Values Order Simple Teaching Highest Careful Statements Observation Accurate Indispensable Verification

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear.”

Light Age Simple Clear Involved Statements Prophet Doom Simple Truths

Book:Between Tears and Laughter

Source: Between Tears and Laughter

“Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er.”

People World Faces Speak Language Common Magic Groups Scientist Dresses Statements Common Sense Magician Breach

Author:Terry Pratchett

“A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, "It lightens and it thunders ," is conjunctive, "It lightens or it thunders" is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician .”

May Individual Taken Example Statements Pairs Mathematician Thunder Connecting

Book:Writings of Charles S. Peirce: 1857-1866

Source: Writings of Charles S. Peirce: 1857-1866

“What our view of the effectiveness of religion in history does at once make evident as to its nature is--first, its necessary distinction; second, its necessary supremacy. These characters though external have been so essential to its fruitfulness, as to justify the statement that without them religion is not religion. A merged religion and a negligible or subordinate religion are no religion.”

Firsts Doe Has Beens Character Views Essentials Statements Distinction Justify Evident Effectiveness Subordinates Supremacy Fruitfulness

Book:The meaning of God in human experience: philosophic study of religion

Source: The meaning of God in human experience: philosophic study of religion

“A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter ... I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair.”

Ifs Feelings Records Paint Statements Painter Chairs Entity

Author:Bob Dylan

“In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder.”

Objects Materials Statements

Author:J. L. Austin

“We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.”

Truth Is Ideals Statements Obsessed Minimum Discussing Illusory

Author:J. L. Austin

“I could never figure out or probably did not take the trouble to figure out what the great philosophical problems are about. The momentous statements I come across are at best a storm in a teacup. There are quite a number of people who have a vested interest in the stuff, make a noble living out of it, and they conspire with one another to keep it alive.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.”

Men Left Interesting Progress Tough Statements Now And Then Pilgrim

Author:Mark Twain

“The usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA , then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.”

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.”

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Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur either in them or in our relationship to them. Objects and circumstances which remain absolutely constant relative to the observer, unchanged either by his own movement or by external events, are in general difficult and perhaps always impossible to perceive. What we perceive easily is difference and change and difference is a relationship.”

Firsts Difficult Differences Impossible Events Movement Objects Circumstances Constant Statements Data Perceive Relative Our Relationship Observers Initials Sensory Derivatives

Book:Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry

Source: Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry

“Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that way arrive at final truth.”

Way Prove Tests Finals Statements Predictions Generalization

Author:Gregory Bateson

“It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.”

Ifs One Thing Errors Metaphor Accepted Statements Latter Absurdity Literal Allegory

Book:Matthew Arnold

Source: Matthew Arnold

“It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in its little complacency. ... The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience, ... what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.”

Ifs Mind Littles Philosophy Differences Wind Intellectual Statements Operations Intimate Discourse Complacency

Book:Inner Experience

Source: Inner Experience

“Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.”

Ifs Want Heart Mean Philosophy Facts Form Goal Existence Expression Morality Highest Ethics Statements Cognition

Author:Novalis

“The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout. Another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem.”

May Made Ideas Action Moving Term Alive Emotional Logic Fundamentals Musical Statements Poetry Is Declaration Progression Rough Times

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State. Therefore an effective statement of these activities - e.g. science, art, religion - is in itself a declaration of ultimate aims around which the political means will crystallise... a society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.”

Needs Humans Mean Art States Care Political Purpose Values Loneliness Activity Eternal Machines Ultimate Aim Institutions Statements Aspiration Declaration Framework Reflecting Cargo

Author:Stephen Spender

“By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they, too, will appear as simple consequences of a theory of which no one has yet dreamed is not a statement of fact.It is a statement of faith.”

Has Beens Facts Simple Known Theory Consequence Statements Realms Physicist

Book:The Pursuit of Simplicity

Source: The Pursuit of Simplicity

“One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been written on the subject, yet there is still an enormous amount of confusion and contradictory statement.”

Thinking Stills Philosophy Written Subjects Amount Relation Method Enormous Statements Confusion Clarity Contradictory Marxist

Author:John Desmond Bernal

“If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.”

Ifs Trying Women Contrary Statements Goeth Makest

Author:Gelett Burgess

“When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.”

People Asks Statements Get Up Ask Me Meant To Be Impressed Pitcher Bragging

Book:Pete Rose: my life in baseball

Source: Pete Rose: my life in baseball

“I may go back and spice it up with a little bit of the tool stuff and grunting and all that that I know so well. But it feels like I'm rehashing old material. And some of my audiences like that. So I'm there to entertain. I'm not there to make a political statement or anything like that. I'm there to entertain.”

Knows Feels Wells May Littles Political Stuff Bits Audience Materials Little Bit Tools Statements Spices

Author:Tim Allen

“The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.”

Way War Winning Cities Lessons England Towns Statements Best Way Germany Reports September Ruined Strategic Bombing Surveys Battered Summary Lessons To Be Learned

Author:George C. Marshall

“We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional.”

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Author:Arlen Specter

“I know politicians are going to be judged on everything they say but sometimes in the heat of discussion you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark. The statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth are those carefully prepared scripted remarks.”

Ifs Knows Needs Littles Sometimes Bits Taken Politician Little Bit Prepared Calm Statements Discussion Heat Judged Remarks

Author:Tony Abbott

“Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.”

Life Happens Life Is Statements

Author:Glen Duncan

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