Verzichtet Quotes & Sayings

Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly. — Eli Roth

Hwang's peacefulness had rendered him incapable of violence. For this to "work," though, the peacefulness must be genuine and deep. The smile must be real. The love must be real. If there is an intent to manipulate, to show the other up, to highlight the brutality by contrasting it with one's own nonviolence, then the power of the smile and the hug is much less strong. — Charles Eisenstein

We eat when we're full, and we hoard all the rest. With our hands on remotes, we say, yes, we're the best. — Alanis Morissette

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust? — Thomas Sowell

Are you sizeist? — John Connolly

God did not mean us to be ignorant. He left us this marvelous universe to decipher and understand. — James Targett

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so. — Dixie Lee Ray

Think it over carefully. This is very important," I say, "because to believe something, whatever it might be, is the doing of the mind. Do you follow? When you say you believe, you allow the possibility of disappointment. And from disappointment or betrayal, there may come despair. Such is the way of the mind. — Haruki Murakami

I only know what I read in the papers. — Pat Nixon

What rewards and punishments do is induce compliance, and this they do very well indeed. If your objective is to get people to obey an order, to show up on time and do what they're told, then bribing or threatening them may be sensible strategies. But if your objective is to get long-term quality in the workplace, to help students become careful thinkers and self-directed learners, or to support children in developing good values, then rewards, like punishments, are absolutely useless. In fact, as we are beginning to see, they are worse than useless - they are actually counterproductive. — Alfie Kohn

There are a lot of nice details that are exclusive to C. Wonder, which are the status C. Wonder gold buttons and the tassels. We want the customer and the loyal client to just really know that when they come to C. Wonder they're getting something that's super wearable but is also really luxurious. — Brad Goreski

Cloud computing seems to be following this evolutionary path: A - Internet backbone. B - Information Superhighway. C - The Net. D - The Web. E - The Cloud. F - "Ubiquity" G - ??? ... — Bruce Sterling