#theory

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ↗

— Larry Bird

#give #got #i #in the end #out

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. ↗

— Jefferson Davis

#died #fails #should #theory #tombstone

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ↗

— Frank Black

#any #because #break #certain #easy

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#any #cannot #describe #disregard #human

My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#feeling #happen #heard #hemingway #himself

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#based #bias #cultural #culture #except

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#around #beings #belief #besides #conscious

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#first #itself #literary #literature #only

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#among #called #especially #fact #gossip

You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#blogs #could #diaries #diary #good