#ene

The application of this knife, the division of the world into parts and the building of this structure, is something everybody does. All the time we are aware of millions of things around us - these changing shapes, these burning hills, the sound of the engine, the feel of the throttle, each rock and weed and fence post and piece of debris beside the road - aware of these things but not really conscious of them unless there is something unusual or unless they reflect something we are predisposed to see. We could not possibly be conscious of these things and remember all of them because our mind would be so full of useless details we would be unable to think. From all this awareness we must select, and what we select and calls consciousness is never the same as the awareness because the process of selection mutates it. We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world." -Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#buddhism #philosophy #psychology #art

James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me. ↗

— Tyrese Gibson

#boxing #character #dude #during #even

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#identify #properties #study #then #today

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#another #been #being #determine #genes

It's not just the players, it's the culture. Sometimes it's the people around them; the people who are looking after them - the money they're given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago. ↗

— Ryan Giggs

#ago #around #culture #families #give

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#art #days #devote #energies #himself

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this. ↗

— Danny Glover

#because #caribbean #change #climate #climate change

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#destroyed #generation #hysterical #i #madness

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#affects #anymore #back #before #change

If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels. ↗

— Bart Gordon

#country #dependency #dispense #distribute #foreign