Yassen Nur Quotes & Sayings

collectivity, on the other hand, is the place of what the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal calls "divertissement," an untranslatable word which roughly means "distraction" or "diversion": It is the escape from life's problems, and also its invitations, into activities that in ultimate terms are meaningless. It is a constant turning to superficial actions as a way to avoid facing the true realities of human life. The soap operas and situation comedies easily become an addiction. They take the place of the "bread and circuses" of ancient Rome. There was plenty wrong with Roman society and the Roman emperors offered the diversion of food and entertainment to make people forget the banality and meaninglessness of the lives they lived. Our society does much the same and has ever so much more in the way of sophisticated tools for doing so. — William H. Shannon

Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible. — Andy Grove

[...] sometimes mystery defies what our head knows and we feel God reach down into the ordinariness of nightly ritual and speak to our heart with a whisper. — Lindsey O'Connor

They were the truth, so far as I can see."
"But you cannot see very far, and what you do see you do not understand. You do not know the truth. — Shannon McDermott

You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software. — Hans Vestberg

Happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired. — George Eliot

Knowledge of thyself is the greatest enlightenment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I made a bit of a stink. At the time, it was considered very bad form. — Diana Rigg

Reality had briefly slid aside one of its black, opaque panels, to give him a glimpse of the gears that ticked behind it. Saunders had discovered a universal constant, like gravity or the quantum nature of light. No matter where you went - no matter how ancient the traditions, no matter how grand the history, no matter how awe-inspiring the landscape - there was always a market for a cheap Happy Meal. — Joe Hill

What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke. — Elie Wiesel

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art. — Roberto Cavalli

Change isn't like a shutter click. It's never instant. — Lamar Giles

We are so reliant on power and technology for everything. — Billy Burke