Tkan Folie Quotes & Sayings

There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language. — Philip K. Dick

Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there. — Tony Robbins

To Rickover the titles and organization charts meant nothing; only the realities of responsibility mattered.45 — U.S. Government

Badgering a colleague doesn't come from a fit of pique, it comes from an organic quality of the soul. And a mean soul will inevitably be reflected in music. Wagner is a convincing example of that, but far from the only one. — Dmitri Shostakovich

Let me ... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God. — Woodrow Wilson

We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all. — George Carlin

Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes and further imagine you are petting your cat, the same neurons in your brains are activated as if you were petting the actual cat. Our minds may know the difference between its models and reality itself, but it prefers its models. So much so that we apprehend reality through our models, rather than directly via the sense. When I'm speaking to you, I have a little bishop in my head, and though I speak out load, I'm speaking to my little bishop. When you answer, I can only perceive you through my model of you.
Mentars also make models, but they don't apprehend reality through them. They end up, not with little people in their minds, but with highly complex rule sets. They relate to their models in the same way we relate to weather models, as things to consult, but not to conflate with external reality. — David Marusek

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. — Phil Donahue

Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous. — Albert Einstein

The world is content with setting right the surface of things. — John Henry Newman

Even good people are obliged to deceive. — Greg LeMond

The moon's my constant mistress,
And the lowly owl my marrow;
The flaming drake and the night crow make,
Me music to my sorrow. — Anonymous

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost. — Miriam Toews

Confidence is very important - even pretending to be Confident. If you make a Mistake but do not let your Opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the Mistake. — Viswanathan Anand