#mentat

We live in a world that is beyond our control, and life is in a constant flux of change. So we have a decision to make: keep trying to control a storm that is not going to go away or start learning how to live within the rain. ↗

— Glenn Pemberton

#control #god #grief #heartache #lament

Life is difficult. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#life #living #mentation #purpose #purposeful

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#certainly #ethics #follow #implementation #institute

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american #american public #commentators #conditioned #down

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#co-operation #complex #elements #employ #experimentation

Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do....implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it. ↗

— Douglas B. Reeves

#belief #buy-in #change #implementation #change

In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#commentators #conservative #democratic #generally #hold

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#better #better future #built #canadians #cannot

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#demand #economy #implementation #instrument #prices

Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way. ↗

— Donna Karan

#experimentation #look #never #real #same