The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The… — Bruce Kovner Copy Share Image
Congressman [Richard ] Icord headed a House on American activities committee. It was called the House Internal Security Committee. And he put… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Every person whose heart is moved by love and compassion, who deeply and sincerely acts for the benefit of others without concern… — Bokar Rinpoche Copy Share Image
You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about… — David Allen Copy Share Image
People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human… — Robert Heller Copy Share Image
The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since… — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of… — Michael Stean Copy Share Image
Youth Liberation has argued for some time that young people should have the right to have sex as well as not to… — Gayle Rubin Copy Share Image
There is scientific evidence that demonstrates there is some impact from human activities. However I don't think the evidence is conclusive. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image