#formation

But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#actions #affect #affects #amount #beliefs

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#conceivable #down #extremely #important #inner

Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#although #any #blocks #could #exposed

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen." (Reply to the Diet of Worms, April 18, 1521) ↗

— Martin Luther

#christian #conscience #freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-thought #organized-religion

Video just accesses international information so much more readily. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#international #just #more #much #readily

My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

#before #beyond #both #cited #deals

Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#entire #information #old #old people #our

It was called the Reclaim Guide. It was just a general protest guide that went over security culture and stuff like that. A small portion of that guide dealt with explosives information. ↗

— Sherman Austin

#culture #dealt #explosives #general #guide

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#enough #fixed #formation #grateful #grew

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#information #long #psychoanalysts #seem #short