#ai

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107. ↗

— Martha Beck

#acquaintances #almost #case #coffee #elderly

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#success #sweetness #understanding #without

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead. ↗

— Martha Beck

#earth #ecosystems #fully #help #i

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life. ↗

— Martha Beck

#been #children #help #homes #industrial

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. ↗

— Martha Beck

#afraid #authority #authority figures #doctors #figures

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school. ↗

— Martha Beck

#certain #certain things #get #others #parents

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#also #ask #attempting #cosmopolitan #dialogue

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#believe #central #complete #conference #conversion

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#being #continues #earns #example #for example

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#fail #failing #go #next #next time