Make Sense Quotes - Page 33

• I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.

  Kelsea Ballerini

  Writing, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I believe that everybody needs to tell their story - to be heard, to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be understood. We all want that, deep down inside - and writing a book is a great way to make sense of your own experience and to share it with others.

  Shakti Gawain

  Believe, Book, Writing

  "Shakti Gawain Is Still ‘Living in the Light’". Interview with BJ Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Law, Purpose

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• I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

  Albert Camus

  Stupid, Men, Doe

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• We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Data, Entering, Use

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• The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented as a sequence of propositions. Meaning is distorted when a word or sentence is, as we say, taken out of context; when a reader or listener is deprived of what was said before, and after. But there is no such thing as a photograph taken out of context, for a photograph does not require one. In fact, the point of photography is to isolate images from context, so as to make them visible in a different way.

  Neil Postman

  Photography, Taken, Way

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.73, Penguin

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• Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.

  William Saroyan

  Cancer, Believe, Cutting

  William Saroyan (1968). “I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure”

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• ... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyond speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves.

  Hannah Arendt

  Truth, Moving, Men

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• In the Middle Age, in Germany, if you wanted to learn addition and multiplication, you could go to any university. But if you wanted to learn division, you could only do it in one place, Heidelberg. This makes sense, since in my theory with Vladimir Retakh and Robert Wilson, addition and multiplications are cheap, but division is expensive.

  Israel Gelfand

  Science, Age, Germany

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• Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was so clearly a religiously inspired movement that entered the public arena and made a major difference in American life.

  Bruce L. Shelley

  Christian, Religious, Biblical

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• I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

  Abigail Washburn

  China, Western, Stills

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• The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but only if there is a common co-ordinate system on which to plot them; yet the existence of a common system belies the claim of dramatic incomparability.

  Donald Davidson

  Views, Plot, Common

  Donald Davidson (2001). “Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays”, p.184, Oxford University Press

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• Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, “The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity’ as if it were a number. It’s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?’ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,’ ‘truth,’ ‘beauty’—those are not numbers.

  John Derbyshire

  Beauty, Math, Numbers

  John Derbyshire (2003). “Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics”, p.21, Joseph Henry Press

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• One thing that definitely did calculate properly for me was the mathematics that makes sense every day, no matter how I look at it, I can't get around it. I try to get around it, I keep trying to find one plus one is not two, somehow. I can't. People can talk about string theory, parallel realities, different dimensions, it's still one plus one is two, baby.

  RZA

  Baby, Reality, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I ever thought of directing again, I mean - I don't know, even the idea of directing a film is a strange one for me, because I feel kind of anti mathematics in a way in that sense. Anti - I don't like when things make sense, I prefer if they don't, so if I made a film, it wouldn't make any sense and no one would see it. So maybe I'll just make little films at home with my phone, never to be released.

  Johnny Depp

  Home, Mean, Phones

  "Johnny Depp interview Pirates of the Caribbean On Strangers Tides". www.moviesonline.ca. November 24th, 2017.

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• The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the most about the spy genre is when you have a great bad guy. What makes a great bad guy, to me, is the logic. What he's about has to make sense to me, that if I was in his shoes, yeah, right, that makes sense.

  John Lasseter

  Thinking, Genre Is, Shoes

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

  Mac DeMarco

  Blue, Jewels, Wave

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better.

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Perspective, Ifs

  "Anne Hathaway Talks Fighting in Heels, Adapting to Nolan’s Universe, Filming in Imax and More on the Set of the Dark Knight Rises". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• The American dream only makes sense if you're sleeping.

  Lowkey

  Dream, Sleep, Ifs

  Song: Obama Nation 2, Album: Soundtrack To Struggle

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• The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Safe Haven, Blue, World

  "Natasha Lyonne, Locked Up". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 9, 2013.

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• People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no longer makes sense; worse still, it leaves people with the disquieting impression that something is being hidden.

  Errol Morris

  Thinking, People, Narrative

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• One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

  Terri E Apter

  Self, Goal, Decision

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• For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

  Stacy Allison

  Rocks, Ice, Snow

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• The goal is just to try to get better and better, and the only way that makes sense to do that is to work with the best people. Surround yourself with the best artists and learn from them, and try to sink your teeth into the best material possible.

  Jon Bernthal

  Artist, People, Goal

  Source: collider.com

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• You've got to make choices that make sense for you because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently.

  Michelle Obama

  Thinking, Choices, Should

  "Michelle Obama misses life without scrutiny". www.today.com. August 05, .2010.

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