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Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#fear #get #information #interesting #may

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#because #contains #explore #fear #fears

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#although #attention #brain #calculations #conscious

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images. ↗

— Dick Cavett

#better #easy #ever #filled #images

With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#could #decision-makers #fbi #get #had

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with. ↗

— David Chalmers

#always #come #computer #computer science #consciousness

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#aspects #british #certain #days #deeply

It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before. ↗

— Iris Chang

#before #broad #difficult #discover #enough

The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#after #came #chronicle #first #grew

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight. ↗

— Will Ferrell

#approach #comedy #commit #doing #drama