Signals Quotes

• Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Sarcastic, New York

  "Late Show with David Letterman",

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• Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

  George Szell

  Music, Giving, Jazz And Life

  Newsweek 28 Jan. 1963

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• Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

  Lydia M. Child

  Wise, Doe, Spirit

  "Philothea: A Grecian Romance". Book by Lydia Maria Child, 1836.

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• Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.

  George Steiner

  Incessant

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• The world is full of signals that we don't perceive.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  World, Perceive

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.313, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Pain, Eye, Should

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• Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Expectations, Unconscious

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• Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, People, Enemy

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• New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Emotional, Pathways, Nerves

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• Occasionally one speaks... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Mean, Order, Principles

  Hans Reichenbach (1958). “Philosophie Der Raum-Zeit-Lehre”, p.138, Courier Corporation

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• Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.

  Jim Rohn

  Funny, Time, Light

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 06, 2013

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• If the apocalypse comes...beep me!

  Joss Whedon

  Funny, Vampire, Sound

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Never Kill a Boy on the First Date". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Radio astronomy reflects our fascination with how audio can be used to understand information or ideas. Just as scientists visualize data through charts and pictures, we can use 'data sonification' to translate radio signals into sound that help us better understand some of our most enigmatic planetary systems.

  Honor Harger

  Data, Ideas, Fascination

  "Tuning In to the Universe" by Honor Harger, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.

  Solanus Casey

  Gratitude, Smart, Grateful

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• The biggest moments of insecurity come when all self-confidence is lost and you feel like people are watching and judging. It should be the opposite. You should feel like the people who are watching care about you. This is something we can try to give each other – the feeling that eyes signal support, not disdain.

  Miley Cyrus

  Eye, Self Confidence, Opposites

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• We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Believe, People, Goodness

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Nov 09, 2014

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• The faster you can signal for rescue, the faster you get out of that situation.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Rescue, Faster

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• The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.

  Nate Silver

  Marketing, Noise, Shaping The Future

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.21, Penguin

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• The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.

  Tom T. Hall

  Song, Finding Yourself, Looks

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• You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• When you appreciate what you have, then you will receive more. When you are in this moment feeling gratitude for this moment you actually up your vibrational signal to attract more things to be grateful for.

  Joe Vitale

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Grateful

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• The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip.

  Timothy Leary

  Radio, Pilots, Information

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• Coincidences are not accidents but signals from the universe which can guide us toward our true destiny.

  Deepak Chopra

  Destiny, Coincidence, Guides

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• Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Life, Depression, Challenges

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• A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Ideas, Situation, Understood

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