Sienines Quotes & Sayings

We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves when we think we understand something, even a computer, merely because we can model or digitize it. — Jaron Lanier

Being a good person is a very important part of my identity, but being a genuinely good person is time-consuming and complicated. — Allie Brosh

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape. — Austin O'Malley

Most of the circuits in our brains run on automatic. The more you think a thought, the more energy goes into that circuit. Eventually it gets enough energy to run the thought automatically without us needing to put more energy into it. — Jill Bolte Taylor

I would love to be where you are now, in Paris, that home of the planless, the free and joyous and emotional people." What — Hutchins Hapgood

Wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow. — Theodore Roosevelt

Girl of eighteen named Elsa Norgaard, — Wallace Stegner

If you're not in the arena with the rest of us, fighting and getting your ass kicked on occasion, I'm not interested in your feedback. — Brene Brown

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought? — Byron Katie

These aren't still shots; the camera is always moving. And the scene is always just slipping out of sight, as if in spite of myself I were always descending a hill, rounding a corner, stepping into the street with a companion who urges me on, while I look back over my shoulder at the sight which recedes, vanishes. The present of my consciousness is itself a mystery which is also always just rounding a bend like a floating branch borne by a flood. Where am I? But I'm not. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more ... — Annie Dillard

I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed. — Amy Sedaris

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship. — Henry David Thoreau

But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen. So we close our eyes to relationship, and we go on thinking that something is going to be seen inside. You cannot see anything inside. — Rajneesh