#mentation

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#good #good idea #hard #hard work #idea

One can indeed try to obtain a particular result either by the use of violence or by speech aimed at securing the adherence of minds. It is in terms of this alternative that the opposition between spiritual freedom and constraint is most clearly seen. The use of argumentation implies that one has renounced resorting to force alone, that value is attached to gaining the adherence of one's interlocutor by means of reasoned persuasion, and that one is not regarding him as an object, but appealing to his free judgment. Recourse to argumentation assumes the establishment of a community of minds, which, while it lasts, excludes the use of violence. ↗

— Chaim Perelman

#rhetoric #freedom

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. ↗

— Steven Biko

#being #black #matter #mental #mental attitude

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano. ↗

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

#clarinet #decided #drums #flute #guitar

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#implementation #law #many #officials #outcome

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#dance #evolutions #gone #instance #instrumentation

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

We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

#also #best #creditors #euro #existing

It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#argumentation #logic-of-thought #persuasion #r-alan-woods #scholarly