“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.” PeopleIfsWellsMeanPersonsI CanReasonWholeIndividualSocialWaitingSeeingInformationParticularPerspectiveCircumstancesOrdinaryAdvantagePatientLazyIntercourseTherapistsTotalityWhole PersonConcluding Author:Alan Loy McGinnis
“The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.” WellsBookWould BeAbleTeacherSubjectsInformationInstitutionsLibraryExpensivePublicationAdaptedContainingPublic Library Book:Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community
“In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.” WellsLittlesBookTogetherBitsTermPathInformationSourceSceneLittle BitYeahNarrativeNonfictionMultipleDescribing Author:Ben Mezrich
“Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.” IfsWellsSometimesDoneEnoughPiecesInformationPeriodsResearchScriptsHomework Author:Mads Mikkelsen
“One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we've got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well.” WorldNeedsWellsRealCountryInformationVictoryConflictOrganizationDrawingReal LifeOur CountryAround The WorldOrganizedDistinctionGet BackCooperationDilemmaCoverageDissemination Author:William J. Clinton
“This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.” WellsKindEnergyInformationRevolutionIntellectualMacintosh Computers Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs