#folding

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#experiences #fabulously #get #how #keep

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#drama #ecological #leading #life #obtaining

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#faults #favorite #gigantic #hide #more

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#before #i #i love #i think #just

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up. ↗

— George Lamming

#future #gone #hardly #only #our

Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding. ↗

— Michael East

#deciding #depends #how #kick #race

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#educating #family #historically #life #played

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#car #gas #getting #having #like

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it! ↗

— Sai Baba

#even #lotus #must #petals #rises