Sensemaking Quotes & Sayings

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances. — Peter Temple

Okay, so maybe they aren't the greatest generation by anyone's standard, but they are surely the best of the bottom third percentile of their own somewhat muddled and suspect generation. — Ben Fountain

I'm probably the highest paid outdoor entertainer since Cleopatra, — Gypsy Rose Lee

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something. — Bob Dylan

But Ed Brubeck's a guy, like Vinny's a guy, and guys are all sperm-guns. — David Mitchell

How can you waste time? You have only so much to use, and no matter what you do, it still passes. — Felix Salten

You will fear something or someone. The Bible says the wisest way to go about your life is to fear God. — Kevin DeYoung

Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part. — Gary Sinise

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song. — Leonard Cohen

So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with. — Joseph Jarman

If I make a decision it is a possession. I take pride in it, I tend to defend it and not listen to those who question it. If I make sense, then this is more dynamic, and I listen and I can change it. A decision is something you polish. Sensemaking is a direction for the next period. — Paul Gleason

My main goal is to try to make fun for everyone. And to see my fans responding to it and to see them having fun is really rewarding. — Troye Sivan

The angel has confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become Spider-Man. [ ... ] The children need heroes, he says. I think he just wants to swing from buildings in tight red jammies. — Christopher Moore

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs. — Faith Hunter

This is why I like Diakopoulos' approach of using technology to answer a need. He identifies four news consumers needs: 1. staying informed; 2. gaining personal identity (through, for example, reinforcing one's values); 3. integrating and interacting socially (finding the basis for conversation); and 4. being entertained. He next defines 10 key journalistic functions: 1. truth 2. independence 3. impartiality 4. public interest 5. watchdogging 6. organizing forums 7. informing 8. storytelling 9. aggregating 10. sensemaking — Jeff Jarvis

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning into phantoms. We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and our future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information. — Jorge Luis Borges

They chose to regard it as a miraculous preservation. — E. M. Forster