Lauity Quotes & Sayings

To begin with our knowledge grows in spots..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you line up your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instill, and to modify to some slight degree their mass..Your mind in such processes is strained, and sometimes painfully so, between its older beliefs and the novelties which experience brings along. — William James

Its Better to Destroy the BOX than to Think outside the BOX. — Udayveer Singh

But this must not be confused with our usual ideas of the practice of "unselfishness," which is the effort to identify with others and their needs while still under the strong illusion of being no more than a skin-contained ego. Such "unselfishness" is apt to be a highly refined egotism, comparable to the in-group which plays the game of "we're-more-tolerant-than-you." The Vedanta was not originally moralistic; it did not urge people to ape the saints without sharing their real motivations, or to ape motivations without sharing the knowledge which sparks them. — Alan W. Watts

What the fanatical Jewish conservatives regarded as heathen pollution, cosmopolitans saw as civilization. This was the start of a new pattern in Jerusalem: the more sacred she became, the more divided. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Six Core Competencies do not define or offer a formula. Rather, they define structure driven by criteria for the elements that comprise it. — Larry Brooks

He bared his teeth in a happy feral grin. My own personal psycho. — Ilona Andrews

On my bed, I sit down and flip through the cut-up books one by one, reading all the cut-up passages. — Jennifer Niven

I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers. — Ken Livingstone

Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person did, but because of a choice I've made. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

up to fifty thousand pounds for Miller's death." VOLKOV OBVIOUSLY CALLED the Broker about it, too, because it wasn't much more — Jack Higgins

Once a programmer had a problem. He thought he could solve it with a regular expression. Now he had two problems. — Jamie Zawinski

It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers. — John Reader

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! — Henry David Thoreau

There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

I think God always has the best for us. — Ernie Harwell