Signals Quotes - Page 9

• Stress is a signal that something needs to change. Suffering, is when we don't make the change!

  Bill Crawford

  Stress, Suffering, Needs

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• Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us to act, or, alternatively, to resist the impulse to act. It can help us to make wise, self-protective choices in and out of relationships where we might otherwise sail mindlessly along, ignoring signs of trouble.

  Harriet Lerner

  Wise, Fear, Self

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Nov 19, 2015

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• The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

  David Hume

  Age, Crusades, Folly

  David Hume (2016). “The History of England, vol. 1~6, Completed: Revision of Great Book”, p.234, VM eBooks

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• When you get a range expansion, the market is sending you a very loud, clear signal that the market is getting ready to move in the direction of that expansion.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Moving, Expansion, Range

  "Market Wizards". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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• Americans are just about the worst at dealing with long-term problems, down there with Uzbekistan, but they respond to a market signal better than almost anyone. They roll the dice bigger and quicker than most.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Uzbekistan, Long, Dice

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• A continuous perception is taking place deep within the mind. It is hard to hear that signal because it is blurred over by your own thoughts, desires, and fears. It is blurred over by your emotional swings. You become dull.

  Frederick Lenz

  Emotional, Swings, Mind

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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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• 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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• 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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• These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information.

  Paul Simon

  Information, Lasers, Constant

  Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Listen to your body's wisdom, which expresses itself through signals of comfort and discomfort. When choosing a certain behavior, ask your body, "How do you feel about this?" If your body sends a signal of physical or emotional distress, watch out. If your body sends a signal of comfort and eagerness, proceed.

  Deepak Chopra

  Emotional, Comfort, Watches

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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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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• 9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people could attack the United States not from the outside, but from the inside. It was a sign that the United States, the most powerful country in the world, could watch the cathedral of capitalism at the Trade Center and the heart of its defense at the Pentagon be struck internally, not really across borders, so that borders don't matter anymore.

  Benjamin Barber

  Country, Powerful, Heart

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork.

  Neil Gershenfeld

  Smart, Technology, Needs

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• Someone asked me whether I was aware of all the people out there who were praying for the President. And I had to say, "Yes, I am. I've felt it. I believe in intercessory prayer." But I couldn't help but say to that questioner after he'd asked the question that - or at least say to them that if sometimes when he was praying he got a busy signal, it was just me in there ahead of him.

  Ronald Reagan

  Prayer, Believe, People

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin.

  Al Gore

  Clouds, Glasses, Holocaust

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• Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.

  Jose Canseco

  Baseball, Player, Games

  "Canseco: No Qualms About Using Steroids". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2005.

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• Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But reevaluating your portfolio shouldn't trigger a sell signal so frequently.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Opportunity, Giving, Needs

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• I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.

  Richard Davidson

  Thinking, Focus, Modern Life

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• What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.

  Ayn Rand

  Reality, Thinking, Mirrors

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.260, Hamilton Books

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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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• It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

  William Stafford

  Secret, Ordinary, Use

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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