Processing Quotes

• We’re now recognizing that the mind, which is an energetic field of thought which you can read with EEG wires on your brain or with a new process called magnetoencephalography (MEG), which reads the field without even touching the body. So it basically says that when you’re processing with your brain, you’re broadcasting fields.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Touching, Brain, Mind

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• Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Emotion, Should

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• Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.

  Frank Abagnale

  Mistake, Order, Littles

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• I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, Mean, Commitment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I deal with this spiritual issue every day - either shooting or processing or sorting or discussing or having conversations - I'm in constant contact with it.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Issues

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

  Steven Pinker

  Memories, Years, Verbs

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• The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods is over.

  Lucy Powell

  Eras, Factories, Britain

  "Providing education to age 18 is crucial for Britain" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2008.

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• I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Thinking, Giving

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• The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

  Saul Williams

  Powerful, Voice, Political

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• If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Memories, Philosophy, Medicine

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.55, Penguin

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• Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, Space, Suits

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• Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Childhood, Goes On, Able

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• If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mother, Hard Times, Talking

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• We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

  Bill Gates

  Food, Waste, Should

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on the World’s Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

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• Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

  Richard Gere

  Listening, Acting, World

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• Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

  Gary Hamel

  Luxury, Innovation, Company

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• We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Self, Humanity, Brain

  Mohsin Hamid (2015). “Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London”, p.62, Penguin

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• I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Dumb, Use

  "Walter Isaacson: Bill Gates Was 'Conventionally Smarter' Than Steve Jobs". Walter Isaacson's speech at the event hosted by PCMag.com in New York City, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2011.

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• Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

  Brian Eno

  Editing, Earth, Film

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• In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.

  Demi Lovato

  Feelings, Negative, Treatment

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• The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

  Steve Jobs

  Writing, People, Pages

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

  Daniel Levitin

  Mind, Conscious, Capacity

  Daniel J. Levitin (2014). “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload”, p.24, Penguin

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• To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Running, Jobs, Waiting

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• I automate some tasks and delegate many others. Doing research, job organization, data processing, field surveys, and plan preparation can be tedious, detailed work.

  Mark Mason

  Jobs, Data, Organization

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• With a little more tweaking, we could make orange juice in the orange without any packaging or processing.

  Homaro Cantu

  Orange Juice, Information Processing, Packaging

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