Procognitive Quotes & Sayings

With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who do not know how to read and to those who do not have the time to read ... I will go find them in their workshops; in their garrets and even, if needed, in their taverns, and there, face to face with their poverty, I will compel them, in spite of themselves, to escape from this frightful poverty which is degrading and killing them. — Flora Tristan

One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future. — J. C. R. Licklider

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling. — Tom Bissell

That's what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud. — Christopher Bollen

If you're disciplining yourself to constantly be at the intersection of many divergent streams of intellectual influence, it's like creating a check and balance set of forces for yourself. You don't need to make independence of thought an act of willpower. You don't need to be like a Marcus Aurelius sort of strong willed high virtue type of person in order to have an independent mind; you have an independent mind my listening to many different people constantly. — Venkatesh Rao

It was an important day in my life when at last I understood that if he needed forty days in the wilderness at one point, I very likely could use three or four. — Dallas Willard

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills. — Tony Buzan

I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead. — Gwen Stefani

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way. — Hedy Lamarr

Worship is the earthly act by which we most distinctly recognize our personal immortality; men who think that they will be extinct a few years hence do not pray. In worship we spread out our insignificant life, which yet is the work of the Creator's hands, and the purchase of the Redeemer's blood, before the Eternal and All-Merciful, that we may learn the manners of a higher sphere, and fit ourselves for companionship with saints and angels, and for the everlasting sight of the face of God. — Henry Parry Liddon