#pac

Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space. You have to reimagine who you are and what life is about. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#attention #career #children #down #expansive

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#always #behaviour #beings #case #comes

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#i #impact #influences #information #like

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#altered #best #compact #confederation #consideration

At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#calories #cheat #could #day #drop

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#concepts #describing #flow #into #lacks

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama. ↗

— Ang Lee

#american #attracts #because #desert #drama

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#blank #i #problem #space #think

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#dialect #fiction #our #our time #science

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000. ↗