Signals Quotes - Page 10

• Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse.

  Jenny Hval

  Real, Weakness, Apocalypse

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• The Bible says there are things that we should look for that signal the last days and one of them of course is the scattering and regathering of the nation of Israel, which we all know happened in 1948 when Israel was declared a nation.

  Greg Laurie

  Israel, Lasts, Looks

  "Greg Laurie: Watered-Down Mainline Christianity Is a Sign of the End Times (Interview)". Interview with Samuel Smith, www.christianpost.com. August 29, 2016.

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• Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.

  Nate Silver

  Political, Doe, Noise

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.48, Penguin

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• I am worried because I'm hearing some of the same signals about Iran and its nuclear program that were heard as the Bush administration made its case for the war in Iraq. 'It's déjà vu all over again.

  David Kay

  War, Iran, Iraq

  "Kay, Carter urge caution on Iran". www.cnn.com. February 9, 2005.

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• I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus.

  Faye Wattleton

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "In Their Own Words: Pro-Lifers Aren’t the Only Ones Who Call Abortion Killing". townhall.com. November 30, 2015.

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• New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.

  Billy Tauzin

  Country, New Orleans, Water

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• It has been said that "to enthuse" means "to fill with spirit," and that spirit of enthusiasm is awaiting release or manifestation. Enthusiasm can be harnessed and activated. It can be transferred from one person to another. The energy of enthusiasm is similar to a radio signal that carries around the world. It can be transmitted and received; and when enthusiasm is shared by a group of people, it can be potentiated to a higher degree of power.

  John Templeton

  Mean, People, Energy

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• Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals as its individual self, choose to give up its life in aid of someone else?

  Lewis Thomas

  Giving Up, Animal, Self

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Ideas, Intellectual, Human Life

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.28, Vintage

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• The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The more a price pattern is observed by speculators the more prone you have false signals; the more the market is a product of nonspeculative activity, the greater the significance of technical breakout

  Bruce Kovner

  Odds, Principles, Patterns

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• There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Encouragement, Destiny

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.621, Library of America

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• The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Long Ago, Velocity, Defining

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.135, Harvard University Press

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• The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Engineering, Practice, Transition

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• In spite of conflicting signals - and in spite of a popular culture that sometimes puts down their innocence - most of our kids are good kids. Large numbers do volunteer work. Nearly all believe in God, and most practice their faith. Teen pregnancy and violence are actually going down. Across America, under a program called True Love Waits, nearly a million teens have pledged themselves to abstain from sex until marriage.

  George W. Bush

  Sex, Believe, Pregnancy

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• It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.

  Washington Irving

  Rose, Achievement, Trials

  Washington Irving “Life of George Washington”

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• A number of revelators and UFO contactees have since mentioned to me that just before the appearance of an entity they were aware of a strange buzzing sound. Witnesses of unexplained aerial phenomenon have also referred to a buzzing or rushing sound shortly before the 'flying saucer' appeared over them. I am also reminded that great deal of poltergeist activity produces a preparatory 'signal' of a buzzing, rasping, or winding noise.

  Brad Steiger

  Rushing, Numbers, Flying

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• My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.

  Nikola Tesla

  Ears, Earth, Caught

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.716, Simon and Schuster

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• Signals from spirit all serve the same purpose; to give you back your life as a creator

  Deepak Chopra

  Giving, Purpose, Spirit

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• The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing

  Thomas S. Monson

  Lighthouse, Failing, Lord

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• Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Men, Practice

  "Abstract Painting" by Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co., (p. 85), 1964.

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• Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

  Alan Hirsch

  Self, People, Perception

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.52, Baker Books

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• That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Thinking, Disease, Turning Points

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• Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.

  Sandra Bartky

  Inferiority, Way, Performances

  Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.72, Routledge

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• It's completely unsexy [Yello, "Oh Yeah" 1985]. It does capture that weird '80s materialism and "We're gonna get it on now" vibe. But it's a very juvenile approach. It also became a weird signal for comedy, in the sense that when you heard the song, it meant comedy was happening on screen. I feel like this song was probably done in a couple of minutes in a studio.

  Margaret Cho

  Song, Couple, Doe

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello's "Oh Yeah" reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

  Theaster Gates

  Art, Thinking, Museums

  Source: chicagoist.com

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