Rapid Cognition Quotes & Sayings

We lighten the loads of others best by helping the Lord strengthen them. — Henry B. Eyring

He who fails to plan,
is planning to fail. — Anonymous

Woody Allen, who has made a fabulous career out of the fear of death, was once asked if he hoped to live on for ever through the silver screen. Allen answered that 'I'd rather live on in my apartment. — Yuval Noah Harari

Silence is the true friend that never betrays. — Confucius

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed. — Mary Gordon

Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them. — Steven Sinofsky

Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime. — Beatrix Campbell

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

From World War II until 1981 the top marginal income tax rate never fell below 70 percent. Under President Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican whom no one ever accused of being a socialist, the top rate was 91 percent. Even after all deductions and credits, Americans with incomes of over $1 million (in today's dollars) paid a top marginal rate, on average, of 52 percent. As recently as the late 1980s, the top tax rate on capital gains was 35 percent. But as income and wealth have accumulated at the top, so has the political power to reduce taxes. The Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, which were extended for two years in December 2010, capped top rates at 35 percent, their lowest level in more than half a century, and reduced capital gains taxes to 15 percent. — Robert B. Reich

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

You are what you inhabit. — Lawrence Millman

If we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition — Malcolm Gladwell

That depends. To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only. — George Eliot

Life is in ourselves and not in the external. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

She took a bad tumble. Those are some nasty bruises she's
carrying," the maid said with a sad shake of the head.
"Aye," Cullen agreed, his eyes traveling over lovely, milky white skin,
interrupted by several black bruises. "She looks like a cow."
Mildrede turned a horrified gaze on him at the comment, but he was
more concerned by the choked sound that came from his bride. He
really hadn't meant it as an insult, but it seemed the women were taking
it so.
"I just meant the coloring," Cullen muttered — Lynsay Sands