#cognition

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#come #gardening #helping #helping people #hindsight

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. ↗

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

#important #kindness #more #recognition #than

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ↗

— George Santayana

#cannot #devour #eating #embrace #expect

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. ↗

— Cary Grant

#beware #failings #own #past #recognition

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”) ↗

— Richard Matheson

#dying #precognition #death

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. ↗

— Friedrich von Hayek

#design

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty. ↗

— Craig M. Mullaney

#dadt #history #military #philosophy #politics

The one and only true freedom we ALL possess is what we think; and our intentions govern what we think. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom-of-thought #intentions #thinking #freedom

I was honored at the awards ceremony. I didn’t get any recognition, but I was honored to be there. (Tickets were cheaper than I imagined!)
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— Jarod Kintz

#awards #buy #ceremony #cheap #cheaper

There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. ↗

— Henry James

#recognition #surprise #imagination