Quotes of: Information-age Keyword

From that original colony sprang seven names that still feature on the landscape: Roanoke (which has the distinction of being the first Indian word borrowed by English settlers), Cape Fear, Cape Hatteras, the Chowan and Neuse Rivers, Chesapeake, and ...

Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives - darn, durn, goldurn, goshdad, goshdang, goshawful, blast, consarn, confound, by Jove, by jingo, great guns, by the ...

Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

For when God is said by these things to try men and prove them, to see what is in their hearts and whether they will keep His commandments or no, we are not to understand, that it is for His own information, or that He may obtain evidence Himself of ...

The Religious Affections

So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are is the most important thing to make yourself happy, and to make others happy... So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do;...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous...To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them... To ignore them is not good...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas e...

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities ...

Timothy Leary

Can we talk real for a minute then? Do you "really" think that your problem is that you just need to gather more information and data before you start to "do" better with your commitment to yourself? Or isn't the real truth more like -> you are alrea...

Scott Abel

Jimmy Serrano: I thought you said this guy was gonna be on the plane. Tony Darvo: That's the information we got. Jimmy Serrano: "That's the information we got." I'm gonna tell you something. I want this guy taken out, and I want him taken out fast. Y...

Midnight Run

[Asking for background information about Howard Hunt] Bob Woodward: It's just profile information, mostly. We know, for example, that he works for Mullen and Company, or did work for Mullen and Company, as a writer. He's also a novelist; we know that...

All the President's Men

Whenever a journalist wrote an article about him that was critical in nature... he would invite them to a meal and at first they assumed they were in trouble for being critical of him. But they soon learned after arrival at his house for a meal that ...

Zelda la Grange

At our age, you don't want to stop.

Alex Van Halen

For age and want save while you may, no morning sun lasts a whole day.

American

Age does not give you good sense, it only makes you go slowly.

Finnish

"Age before beauty," said the devil as he threw his grandmother off' the stairs.

German

Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Never put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics