Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning. — Barry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Do not believe that any one can know, better than yourself, what is right for you. Listen to what others have to… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked. — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
As you think, so you become…Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility.… — Ray Stata Copy Share Image
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the… — Edmund Leach Copy Share Image
At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
This is a really difficult question. Although I once thought that a dream and an accomplishment are the same thing, I've now… — Bae Yong-joon Copy Share Image
Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
I cannot deny that I have doubts, reservations and fears. However, I have come to the conclusion that in the present regional… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
Jesus himself, as the gospel story goes on to its dramatic conclusion, lives out the same message of the Sermon on the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence uses a complex set of rules - algorithms - to get to a conclusion. A computer has to calculate its… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The 9/11 Commission Report is fatally flawed. The major conclusions of The 9/11 Commission Report, the official, conspiracy theory, are false. — Enver Masud Copy Share Image
“Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I don't want to insert myself into the story. I just want to give a useful analysis of it to help people… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
This initial experience has not lived up to our expectations... and it is not acceptable. While these problems will require a lot… — Marilyn Tavenner Copy Share Image
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out… — Giorgio Napolitano Copy Share Image
It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We should be proud of liberating the 26 million people in Iraq and should remember that this is why it is important… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out? — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
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