Quotes of: Common-mind Keyword

Nobutada: [after Algren is defeated in fencing pratice] Please forgive; too many mind. Algren: [puzzeled] "Too many mind?" Nobutada: Hai, mind the sword, mind the people watch, mind enemy - -too many mind. [seriously] Nobutada: No mind. Algren: [pret...

The Last Samurai

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.

The Common Law

It was one thing to jack off. It was another thing to jack off and not secure your shit before you opened a goddamned door. That was like, Puberty 101. Or Being a Guy 101. Or Basic Fucking Common Sense 101.

Dare to Resist

In reality, though, most of the time we don’t choose the best option—we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing.

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

-our father used to tell us stories about a bookworm named Wally. Wally, a squiggly little vermicule with a red baseball cap, didn't merely like books. He ate them.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.

The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to b...

Simon Raven

Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

What makes you such an expert on alien life?” Scarlet asked after a few minutes. “I’ve been all over the galaxy. Seen a lot of stuff,” Han said. “Plus, I have common sense.

Honor Among Thieves

In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them

Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet.

Moth Smoke

The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.

Look to the Lady

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Vision is the foresight or forecast or insight into the future. Vision is the picture of one's destiny or accomplishment, or simply what a person is meant to do or become.

Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers

Power is defined as an ability to do qualitative work with a quantitative passion, backed by a compelling conviction, directed by a propelling purpose, fulfilling a divine destiny. That is power!

Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers

One person with a divine purpose, passion and power is better than 99 people who are merely interested. Passion is stronger than interest.

Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers