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It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#believe #brought #cases #common #commonly

I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you where you've gone wrong and what you can do about it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#build #feedback #get #going #gone

I don't like to be pigeonholed; I don't like when people won't see me for something because they don't think I can do it. I always feel like, at least give me the shot. ↗

— Khandi Alexander

#because #feel #give #give me #i

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#cannot #central #criterion #first #know

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#attention #being #business #conation #describe

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

#husband #i #i do #understands

I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an audience that's so tuned in and plugged in to what's going on. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

#cool #entirely #first #first time #going

I look more Indian when I'm serious. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#indian #look #more #serious

You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there's not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers. ↗

— Kim Alexis

#covers #lot #model #multifaceted #took

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project. ↗

— Tatyana Ali

#doing #first #follows #i #la