Procederen Quotes & Sayings

(1) Risk-taking behavior, essential for efforts at innovation, is more widespread in some societies than in others. (2) The scientific outlook is a unique feature of post-Renaissance European society that has contributed heavily to its modern technological preeminence. (3) Tolerance of diverse views and of heretics fosters innovation, whereas a strongly traditional outlook (as in China's emphasis on ancient Chinese classics) stifles it. (4) Religions vary greatly in their relation to technological innovation: some branches of Judaism and Christianity are claimed to be especially compatible with it, while some branches of Islam, Hinduism, and Brahmanism may be especially incompatible with it. — Jared Diamond

What is competent writing? Competent writing is writing that efficiently describes ideas and concepts to an audience, using a grammar that the audience can understand. — John Scalzi

With songs one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise. And in that world you can be more than you actually are. — Sophie Hunger

My favorite thing about doing photo shoots is just being able to have fun, meeting new people, getting dressed up, and I just love doing it. So, I have a lot of fun. — Kendall Jenner

I speak, I speak, and truth at that. Writers are a curious breed: brooding, fickle, alternately loving and hating their work - and each other. You're my friend? Don't pick up that pen! — Chila Woychik

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't. — Oscar Wilde

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back. — Robert Winston

Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain. — Ellen Hopkins

I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show. — Clay Aiken

Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it. — Stephen Vincent Benet

Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around. — Julia Glass