#mentation

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

I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#argumentation #fallacy #journalism #leftism #design

Life is difficult. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#life #living #mentation #purpose #purposeful

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives. ↗

— Criss Jami

#battle #bias #combat #discernment #disputes

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

We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#because #big #commission #instrumentation #nature

Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#did #everything #felt #how #i

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers. ↗

— Adam Osborne

#computers #creating #documentation #guy #knows

I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country. ↗

— Pitbull

#ask #back #because #constitution #country

But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#ball #commitments #difference #eye #financial