#cons

He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen. ↗

— Bill Scott

#confrontation #constant #elected #elected officials #legislature

The one thing that doesn't abide majority rule is a person's conscience. ↗

— Harper Lee

#inspirational #inspirational

Sometimes you just gotta wear the tinfoil hat. ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#energy-healing #enlightenment #funny-humor #god #higher-self

When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues ↗

— Larry Dossey

#health #inspiration #inspirational

That no matter how smart you thought you were, you are actually way less smart than that. ↗

— David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest p

#self-consciousness #intelligence

A consciência da insonsciência da vida é o mais antigo imposto à inteligência. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#intelligence #portugal #portuguese #tax #unconsciousness

Superorganism. A biologist coined that word for our great African ant colonies, claiming that consciousness and intelligence resided not in the individual ant but in the collective ant mind. The trail of red taillights stretching to the horizon as day broke around us made me think of that term. Order and purpose must reside somewhere other than within each vehicle. That morning I heard the hum, the respiration of the superorganism. It's a sound the new immigrant hears but not for long. By the time I learned to say "6-inch Number 7 on rye with Swiss hold the lettuce," the sound, too, was gone. It became part of the what the mind would label silence. You were subsumed into the superorganism. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

#consciousness #immigrants #new-york #intelligence

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself. ↗

— Erol Ozan

#brain #computer #computers #computing #consciousness

[Constance Bennett] never tired of acting, said Peter Plant. “She liked it, she enjoyed it, and she worked very hard at it. When she was making a film, she would really be busy preparing for the next day’s scenes. I would visit her for half an hour, and then she would go back to her script. She had what her father had, a photographic memory. Richard Bennett, I understand, could read a play through once, and he knew the whole play, and everyone else’s cues. I have the good fortune to have inherited that, and it’s made many people think me more intelligent than I am. ↗

— Eve Golden

#business

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others? ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#consciousness #help #world #life