#sages

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie. ↗

— Nate Silver

#amount #cat #collection #congress #data

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. ↗

— Socrates

#deliver #enabled #find #i #inspiration

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages. ↗

— Al Stewart

#hand #out #passages #reach #those

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#avoid #different #different things #doing #had

Politics thrives on simple, clean messages, something that played to Obama's advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of America's AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obama's watch, and there's no one left to blame. ↗

— John Sununu

#america #blame #clean #come #economy

We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down? ↗

— Sarah Sutton

#always #around #calm #calm down #director

I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#always #be true #becoming #control #culture

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism. ↗

— Justin Sane

#fighting #great #history #i #listening

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters. ↗

— Rachel Blanchard

#brothers #child #confusing #does #fork

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive. ↗

— Joan Didion

#imagine #messages #survival #survive #imagination