Capacity Quote by Jean-Francois Lyotard Download Open image “What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination” — Jean-Francois Lyotard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capacity Discrimination Fine Hypothesis Racism
While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I think that... discrimination in the job market is a very important area where work needs to be done. — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
People who lack the skill of discrimination tend to believe that everything is of relatively equal importance. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
“if you’ve experienced discrimination in one form, you’re more likely to recognize it in another. Also” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Discrimination -in the sense of sustaining a statistical predictive trait of an individual’s group to make a decision about the individual -is not always… — Stephen Pinker Copy Share Image
One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won't stop if some of the underlying biases aren't challenged and surfaced.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Discrimination is training in not identifying or empathizing with someone because they are different in some way, in believing the differences mean everything and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
“Saddam Hussein is a product of Western departments of state and big companies, just as Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco were born of the 'peace'… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
