I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his… — John Grier Hibben Copy Share Image
People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information… — Jonah Berger Copy Share Image
The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines… — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Communists must never separate themselves from the majority of the people or neglect them by leading only a few progressive contingents in… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I hope people find my movies funny and will watch them years from now. And, in terms of writing, I hope that… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Men in long-term relationships, we all know how they lose their mojo, they just completely fall apart. They feel like they're not… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to thing in relatively short-term. In the Middle East… — Jay Rockefeller Copy Share Image
In terms of any sacrifices at the time [of World War II], I was somewhat protected living on a small farm where… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Blood Brothers! I've always wanted to play Linda and when I'm old enough, Mrs. Johnston. I would love it if Cameron Mackintosh… — Francesca Jackson Copy Share Image
Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I just love this idea of using, especially in terms of food, using that common sense. If you follow that - it's… — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by… — Mike Scheidt Copy Share Image
Being part of The L Word made me realize how much more television can be that what I had experienced in my… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success. — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If we want to create new rules of globalization, then we can't just think in terms of the nation state. The nation… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
You want people to think. You want people to be emotionally moved. And there's a theory behind that in terms of storytelling.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The good thing about being in advertising was a lot of the skills cross over: you have to be accountable for your… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page. — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image