Salient Quotes

27 quotes by 26 authors

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I think I need to spend some time with safari but what arrests my attention are salient, sadomasochism, saccadic, and salad days. I think I… — Dara Wier
I do not deny certain kinds of biological differences. But I always ask under what conditions, under what discursive and institutional conditions, do certain biological… — Judith Butler
If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions,… — Teresa Amabile
You discover over time that music can be overwhelming. Unless the musicians involved understand this they can lose audiences. Spontaneity and improvisation are salient features… — Bennie Maupin
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. — Harry Frankfurt
When the environment makes gender salient, there is a ripple effect on the mind. We start to think of ourselves in terms of our gender,… — Cordelia Fine
Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry -… — John D. Caputo
The three salient features of love are: Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is love, there is no pain. Where there… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk,… — A. C. Benson
Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning. — Barry McCaffrey
Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding… — Jewel
The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented. — Tom Peters
Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If… — Bill Bryson
Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture.… — Daniel Dennett
No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any… — Aldo Leopold
...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of… — Bill Bryson
Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED — William Rathbone Greg
Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human… — Sugata Mitra

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