#provoke

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. ↗

— Criss Jami

#concealment #confusion #contemplation #dishonesty #hardcore

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#correction #deserves #doubtless #editor #enough

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#childhood #provokes #reach #responses #right

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#conceived #different #feel #films #funny

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#comfort #create #dialogue #egos #flatter

Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#attacks #borders #civilians #furthering #goal

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#am #answers #apprehend #asked #been

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers. ↗

— James Ellroy

#i #like #provoke #readers #responses

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others. ↗

— Thomas More

#applying #complication #diseases #fall #ill

It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#another #around #day #either #get