Venuti Woodworking Quotes & Sayings

The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problems the neocortex uses stored memories to solve problems and produce behavior. — Jeff Hawkins

I'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer. — Jim Crace

The difference between the masculine and feminine spiritual constitution is represented by their respective roles in reproduction. The man is the giver while the woman is the receiver. The man gives to the woman, but she, in turn, produces much more than the man initiated. She receives but ultimately ends up creating and developing something complete. If masculinity is giving, femininity is receiving, developing, and completing. — Chana Weisberg

Sometimes our thoughts turn back toward a corner in a forest, or the end of a bank, or an orchard powdered with flowers, seen but a single time on some happy day, yet remaining in our hearts and leaving in soul and body an unappeased desire which is not to be forgotten, a feeling that we have just rubbed elbows with happiness. — Guy De Maupassant

What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Along with the mystical wonderment and sense of ecological responsibility that comes with the recognition of connectedness, more disturbing images come to mind. When applied to economics, connectedness seems to take the form of chain stores, multinational corporations, and international trade treaties which wipe out local enterprise and indigenous culture. When I think of it in the realm of religion, I envision smug missionaries who have done such a good job of convincing native people everywhere that their World-Maker is the same as God, and by this shoddy sleight of hand have been steadily impoverishing the world of the great fecundity and complex localism of belief systems that capture truths outside the Western canon. And I wonder - if everything's connected, does that mean that everything can be manipulated and controlled centrally by those who know how to pull strings at strategic places? — Malcolm Margolin

But I drink differently than they do. They drink to take the edge off. I drink to disappear. — Glennon Doyle Melton

God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it. — Orville Dewey

My family has a Christmas tradition: Every year, they kill my mom. — James Aquilone

You have to trust that this person wont hand your heart back in a million tiny abused pieces. — Kimberly Lauren

To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them. — Boomer Esiason

The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on Earth. — Benjamin Van Roy