Metatheory Quotes & Sayings

The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something. — Penn Jillette

I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing. — Kenneth Langone

The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow. — William James

Discovery commences with the awareness of anomaly, i.e. with the recognition that nature has somehow violated the paradigm-induced expectations that govern normal science. It then continues with a more or less extended exploration of the area of anomaly. And it closes only when the paradigm theory has been adjusted so that the anomalous has become the expected. — Thomas Kuhn

Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is. — Neale Donald Walsch

For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work. — Ciaran Hinds

Your state has been seen, and will be reported on. Only it is necessary that you do not yawn. Or, of course, speak. Discretion in all things in all things is needed." She was reminding them, and she hoped they realised it, that they were not circumcised. The circumlocution expected of a high-born Syrian princess was sometimes a trial to Sara Khatun. — Dorothy Dunnett

... So, um, you're from Rochester? Like, New York?" Jersey asked.
"Yup, we used to live out there," Rudger confirmed, nonchalant. "You ever been?"
"Naw, the closest I've ever been to there would be ... well, believe it or not, New Jersey, the place where my parents named me after. It was crowded, polluted and full of crime ... I loved it. — Rebecca McNutt

We must let our hopes be greater than our fears. — Mike Lofgren

F you're gonna have a pro-drug argument, start the argument where it starts: I have the right to do what ever the hell I want to my own body, if it kills me slowly, happy for me, fuck you, "clack clack" (miming a pump-action shotgun) stop me! — Doug Stanhope

The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace. — H.L. Mencken

Don't drink and drive. But if you do, call me. — Saul

We feel the ground slipping from beneath our feet, and we want to hold on and stay in control. And so we organize and define (that is, put limits around) what first moved freely within us, flowed out of us, and motivated our action. We also dismiss, with varying degrees of harshness, what does not fit into the pattern we so painstakingly created for our God experience. — Barbara Fiand

An Arabic proverb: One insect is enough to fell a country. A Japanese proverb: Even an insect one-tenth of an inch long has five-tenths of a soul. My — Jenny Offill

I thought I knew this world. I thought I could control it. But just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away from you. — Jodi Picoult

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success. — James Cash Penney