#butterfly

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly. ↗

— Imogene Coca

#butterfly #comedians #essentially #hammer #most

たとえば、「あるボタンを押すと今の自分にとって必要な教育的なコンテンツしか出てこない」というようなフィルターがかかればいいのかもしれませんが、ウェブだといつのまにか、自分が勉強しようと思っていたこととは違う、全然関係ないことに辿りついてしまい、そのまま流されていってしまうということがよくあります。こんな現象を、イスラエルの教育メディア学者ガブリエル・サロモンは、「バタフライ・ディフェクト」と呼びました。つまりウェブのようなメディアだと、誰もがフラフラと飛び回ってしまうだけで、落ち着いて深い思考や学びができなくなる危険性がある。[185〜186ページ] ↗

— 飯吉透

#open-education #education

If you have WANNA, you can do ANYTHING!! - The Caterpillar That Wouldn't Change ↗

— Nancy S. Mure

#caterpilliar #change #inspirational #metamorphosis-and-other-stories #motivating

Tell me you’ve seen the world. Now, you’ve come back home Tell me you’ve carried me with you, That you’ve held me close. Tell me you’ve missed me Or that I’m not crazy for waiting cause Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away ↗

— Laura Miller

#love #will #love

I had found him again, and with him, my world had become completely unwound. It was messy and impulsive, naïve and irrational, and somehow, right again. ↗

— Laura Miller

#love #love

Don’t count him out, Julia. He hasn’t given up on you. ↗

— Laura Miller

#love #love

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#am #butterfly #dreaming #i #i am

I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly. ↗

— Serena Williams

#butterfly #call #court #different #different names

Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it. ↗

— Pia Zadora

#butterfly #certainly #died #expected #give

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up. ↗

— Pia Zadora

#case #commercial #follow-up #geared #las