#mental

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#avoid #confidence #desire #experimental #goes

Love is a serious mental disease. ↗

— Plato

#love #love is #mental #serious

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#based #cannot #communication #conscious #contrary

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#arts #attracted #bias #conservative #greater

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#concern #culture #environmentalists #kind #landscape

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#between #created #debt #difference #duties

For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army. ↗

— John Pomfret

#army #because #bosnia #bosnian #changed

Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#because #class #forward #fundamentally #go

On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier. ↗

— John Pople

#back #contemplated #earlier #electronic #fundamental

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness. ↗

— Michael Porter

#distinction #effectiveness #fundamental #operational #strategy