Initials Quotes - Page 15

Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later felt betrayed as the original concept of equal individual opportunity evolved toward the concept of equal group results.

Thomas Sowell

Opportunity, Rights, Decision

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The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch. (You perceive I employ a capital initial in the pronoun referring to the Deity; don't you think there is a slight dash of flunkeyism in that usage?).

Herman Melville

Heart, Men, Thinking

Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4894, Delphi Classics

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I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. How do I know, but I think I'm quite good at saying, "That's no good. That's no good. That's it. That's it. That's good." And I'm with the editor who goes, "No, I think you're wrong. That's not your best." There's an initial point in the editing, if you're directing yourself, especially in my case, where you go, "Ouch, ouch, ouch, I can't watch this." And then, there's a point where you become hard-nosed and just take your neurosis away and go, "What's working? That's okay. That's okay. We can lose that, and lose that." You get objective about it.

Ralph Fiennes

Editors, Editing, Ouch

"Ralph Fiennes Talks THE INVISIBLE WOMAN, Acting and Directing, Editing His Performance, and THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 23, 2013.

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How did I gain from not remembering my earthly self? It allowed me to go deep into realms beyond the worldly without having to worry about what I was leaving behind. Throughout my entire time in those worlds, I was a soul with nothing to lose. No places to miss, no people to mourn. I had come from nowhere and had no history, so I fully accepted my circumstances-even the initial murk and mess of the Realm of the Earthworm's-Eye View-with equanimity.

Eben Alexander

Eye, Self, Views

Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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I think there's always an expectation when you're a first generation, especially a first-generation Nigerian, of sort of being a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer. And so, you know, sort of my initial pursuits into the arts and that I was going to pursue film as a career didn't confuse them, but it was definitely something that they were scared about.

Terry Gross

Art, Thinking, Doctors

Source: www.npr.org

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Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.

Terry Eagleton

Reading, Understanding, Movement

Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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After initial needs are metenough food, shelter, comfortthere is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.

Geneen Roth

Money, Believe, People

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Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur either in them or in our relationship to them. Objects and circumstances which remain absolutely constant relative to the observer, unchanged either by his own movement or by external events, are in general difficult and perhaps always impossible to perceive. What we perceive easily is difference and change and difference is a relationship.

Gregory Bateson

Data, Differences, Events

Jurgen Ruesch, Gregory Bateson (2006). “Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry”, p.173, Transaction Publishers

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My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of gift and when it came time to try to find a publisher I had a little bit of an "in" because I had his agent I could turn to, to at least read my initial offerings when I was about 20. But the only problem was that they were just awful, they were just terrible stories and my agent, who ended up being my agent, was very, very sweet about it, but it took about four years until I actually had something worth trying to sell.

Anne Lamott

Sweet, Father, Reading

Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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Hey Bieber, I had the initials JB first.. Where's my 15%?

Jack Barakat

Hey, Firsts

Twitter post from Apr 10, 2010

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The legendary missionary journey of St. Paul, which led to the foundation of the British church, presupposes the existence of a Jewish community - always the initial object of his propaganda - even before the capture of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70.

Cecil Roth

Journey, Years, Community

"A History of the Jews in England". Book by Cecil Roth, 3rd edition, p. 1, 1964.

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The initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and teaching. Although APL has been exploited mostly in commercial programming, I continue to believe that its most important use remains to be exploited: as a simple, precise, executable notation for the teaching of a wide range of subjects.

Kenneth E. Iverson

Believe, Teaching, Writing

"A Personal View of APL". IBM Systems Journal, 30 (4), 1991.

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I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And so, I looked around and when I was at high school, probably 14 or so, my parents through friends arranged for me to be able to go work on farms on the weekend.

Ian Wilmut

School, Weekend, Thinking

Interview at the Academy of Acheivement, May 23, 1998.

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There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

John Rawls

Doubt, Variation, Moral

"A Theory of Justice". Book by John Rawls, 1971.

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Slim Shady, Eminem was the old initials.

Eminem

Slim, Shady, Slim Shady

Song: I Just Don't Give A Fuck

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My biggest fear is expending the best and most exciting energy in sketches, no matter how quickly executed. I often need to empty the rubbish bin several times before regaining the fresh quality of the initial exploratory sketches.

Catherine Stock

Quality, Energy, Needs

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The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.

Kelly Link

Editors, Panic, Sparks

"Kelly Link, Words by Flashlight". Interview with Lauren McLaughlin, www.sensesfive.com. June 7, 2006.

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It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the later. Prediction becomes impossible, and we have the fortuitous phenomena.

Henri Poincare

Errors, Differences, Finals

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Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.

Donella Meadows

Views, World, Evolution

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Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the coordination of interrelated activities. What these complex undertakings share in common is the task of constructing a statement of actions to be performed, their timing and quantity (called a program or schedule), that, if implemented, would move the system from a given initial status as much as possible towards some defined goal

George Dantzig

Military, War, Moving

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As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort.

Gustavo Gutiérrez

Effort, Understanding, Progress

Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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It's a lot more than clicking the shutter...it's the ideas, it's the visual voice, it's the telling the story, it's kind of going beyond that initial thing that just means you happened to be there at the right time.

Ron Haviv

Mean, Ideas, Voice

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As our initial click fraud research study showed last year, there is an obvious problem in the online advertising world. The challenge is that I'm not sure anyone really knows the extent of the click fraud problem.

Flint McGlaughlin

Years, Challenges, Research Study

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It isn't the initial cost of a lie, it is the upkeep which counts so terribly.

Emilie Loring

Lying, Cost, Upkeep

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But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.

Caitlin Thomas

Lying, True Evil, Two

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