“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.” KnowsWarStoriesActionSocialCommonBrainKnowledgePracticeKnow HowLearningBloodTheoryConceptsManagementBoxesIntuitionCommon SenseStreamsConsumedPizzaNeatExplicitToppingsWar StoriesBest PracticesOsmosis Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems
“There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.” IfsCultureBlackBloodTheoryAfrican AmericanAmerican CultureAfrican American Culture Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“In the helter-skelter of this book, I didn't develop my views as theory. In fact, I even believe that efforts of that kind are tainted with ponderousness. Nietzsche wrote "with his blood," and criticizing, or, better, experiencing him means pouring out one's lifeblood. It was only with my life that I wrote the Nietzsche book that I had planned.” BelieveKindMeanBookFactsViewsEffortBloodTheoryCriticizePouringTainted Author:Georges Bataille
“I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic.” WarSpeakClearFailingBloodTheoryBasesRepublicSeptemberHarvestWoeEmancipationKindredDevastationProclamationSubjugationRipening Author:Franklin Pierce
“Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may prevent damage and might even help repair these areas by increasing blood flow.” MayHelpingMightPoorBrainBloodTheoryExerciseResearchAreasFlowDamageBlood Flow Author:Bill Vaughan
“If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.” IfsHumansWellsKindHas BeensDoneBloodTheoryCirculationAhimsaVivisection Book:All Men Are Brothers Source: All Men Are Brothers