Urbanizing Cities Quotes & Sayings

For stage I try to dress down, because I want people to take me seriously. — Marnie Stern

The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune. — Alan Watts

Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not predisposed to respect humble people, those who try to suspend judgement. Now contemplate epistemic humility. Think of someone heavily introspective, tortured by the awareness of his own ignorance. He lacks the courage of the idiot, yet has the rare guts to say "I don't know." He does not mind looking like a fool or, worse, an ignoramus. He hesitates, he will not commit, and he agonizes over the consequences of being wrong. He introspects, introspects, and introspects until he reaches physical and nervous exhaustion.
This does not necessarily mean he lacks confidence, only that he holds his own knowledge to be suspect. I will call such a person an epistemocrat; the province where the laws are structured with this kind of human fallibility in mind I will can an epistemocracy. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that. — Lawrence Eagleburger

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight. — William J.H. Boetcker

If you want to change the world, just change yourself. The world needs traitors. — Bauvard

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning ... you can't do that when you have two children! — Julie Mehretu

I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly. — Juliette Lewis

Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence. — Johann Joachim Winckelmann

This book will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this book. — William D. Hendricks

The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it. — Walter Isaacson