#tom

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#boredom #chief #deepening #product #sense

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#bottom #courage #cowardice #easier #enter

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#concentrated #edible #enables #evoke #food

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#automatic #becomes #develops #enough #frequently

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing. ↗

— Stuart Pearce

#bottom line #chance #education #failing #give

We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#cannot #customers #goods #haven #into

Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#any #architect #bottom #certainly #child

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#feel #illusion #like #may #much

Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#bunch #could #done #get #idiots

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#airplane #any #artists #atom #atom bomb