#cat

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#catholic #i #lapsed #like #point

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#catholic #deeply #i #i was raised #raised

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#had #humor #i #indicated #know

Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend. ↗

— America Ferrera

#educated #feel #feeling #finding #friend

I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#biotech #companies #diversification #exclusively #fund

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#funds #historically #individual #mutual #mutual funds

So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#communications #decade #during #evacuation #first

There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#area #astronaut #career #chemical #course

Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they would not think of following, speak truths they do not believe. And yet they expect children to obey the rules, believe the truths, and admire and respect their parents for this nonsense. Children must be very wise and secret to tolerate adults at all. And the greatest nonsense of all that adults expect children to believe is that people learn by experience. No greater lie was ever revered. And its falseness is immediately discerned by children since their parents obviously have not learned anything by experience. Far from learning, adults simply become set in a maze of prejudices and dreams and sets of rules whose origins they do not know and would not dare inspect for fear the whole structure might topple over on them. I think children instinctively know this," Ed said. "Intelligent children learn to conceal their knowledge and keep free of this howling mania. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#children #education #experience #learning #dreams