Relating Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Relating Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.

As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative Games,' also to make a nice discovery
relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties. —
John Forbes Nash Jr.
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What are the problems associated with Asperger syndrome? People with Asperger syndrome describe the following associated problems and feelings: loneliness; despair; feeling isolated; being misunderstood; not being wanted in a team or group; feeling uninterested in
relating to others socially and not really caring about it; feeling alone, even in the company of others, or in a relationship with someone; experiencing a feeling of missing out on the social interactions that most people consider to be so important; —
Ruth Searle
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The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in
relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work. —
Peter F. Drucker
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The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose unconscious associations of pain and discomfort in relationships to man render a deity in human form impossible. Christianity is unacceptable to some people because of the use of the human symbol, but some who can't accept Christ can gain a tremendous sense of peace from
relating to uncontaminated areas. —
Donald Glover
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[Fantasy] is a constructive aspect of the child's experimental exploration of reality, or his progressive
relating of himself to reality, of his trial-and-error attempts to solve his reality problems. —
Lauretta Bender
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Kit, you know the key to
relating to your parents now? It's mercy. Children, when they become teenagers and then young adults, grow unforgiving. Anything but perfection is pathos. Children are judgmental on an Old Testament level. All errors are unforgivable, as if a contract of perfection has been broken. But what if one's parents are granted the same mercy, the same empathy as other humans? Children need more Jesus in them. —
Dave Eggers
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I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have been politically correct but I've reached somebody; They
relating to me. They relate to the brutal honesty in the rap. —
Tupac Shakur
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On issues
relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice. —
Tom Daschle
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I could only reply that I think---I theorise--that something--something else--happens to the memory over time. For years you survive with the same loops, the same facts and the same emotions...The events reconfirm the emotions--resentment, a sense of injustice, relief--and vice versa. There seems no way of accessing anything else; the case is closed. But what if, even at a late stage, your emotions
relating to those long-ago events and people change? That ugly letter of mine provoked remorse in me...I felt a new sympathy for them--and her. Then, not long afterwards, I began remembering forgotten things. —
Julian Barnes
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We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and
relating them to information systems requirements. —
Tony Scott
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Homer was able to give us no information
relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things. —
Lactantius
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Genuine, authentic
relating enlivens the spirit. —
Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
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When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not
relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails. —
Adyashanti
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It's baffling why the issues
relating to climate change - [which] have far more obvious and tangible and much more clear-cut evidence about the cause - have been slower for people to accept as a given. —
Sylvia Earle
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Her core discovery, made with a co-author, Erik M. Conway, was twofold. They reported that dubious tactics had been used over decades to cast doubt on scientific findings
relating to subjects like acid rain, the ozone shield, tobacco smoke and climate change. And most surprisingly, in each case, the tactics were employed by the same group of people. —
Anonymous
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Other forms of
relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer. —
Larry Crabb
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One of the most remarkable of all ornithological discoveries was the realisation that birds in temperate regions undergo enormous seasonal changes in their internal organs...Perhaps the most far-reaching discovery
relating to these changes was the finding in the 1970s that parts of the brain also varied in size across the year...The centres in the avian brain that control the acquisition and delivery of song in male birds shrink at the end of the breeding season and grow again in the following year. —
Tim Birkhead
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We have already examined one of the objections that have been brought against the Quantity Theory; the objection that it only holds good ceteris paribus. No more tenable as an objection against the determinateness of our conclusions is reference to the possibility that an additional quantity of money may be hoarded. This argument has played a prominent role in the history of monetary theory; it was one of the sharpest weapons in the armoury of the opponents of the Quantity Theory. Among the arguments of the opponents of the Currency Theory it immediately follows the proposition
relating to the elasticity of cash-economizing methods of payment, to which it also bears a close relation as far as its content is concerned. —
Ludwig Von Mises
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That the policies - from energy to labor policies, trade policies, government policies
relating to debt and deficits are all aligning in such a way that America, far from being one of the places people are running from, is a place people are going to come to and add jobs. —
Mitt Romney
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Whether I'm running, working,
relating, parenting, learning - whatever I'm doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me. —
Kristin Armstrong

A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes "
relating" to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It's just ironical that two people who are not good enough to be best friends are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together. —
Olaotan Fawehinmi

That's one problem about
relating events in first person. The reader knows the narrator didn't get killed. —
Robert McCammon

Just remember, it's an easy place to be at home in, Ireland. I think the people are very skilled at
relating. I notice, watching the different nationalities on the mountain, the fluidity of interaction the Irish people have with the visitors, and with each other. It's a skill that's less developed in other nationalities, and it's so instinctive it doesn't even look like a skill. —
Pete McCarthy

Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history ... Without ever
relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories. —
Hannah Arendt

The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of it
relating to the laser enrichment of uranium support a concern that has long existed that documents might be distributed to the homes of private individuals ... we cannot help but think that the case might not be isolated and that such placements of documents is deliberate to make discovery difficult and to seek to shield documents by placing them in private homes. —
Hans Blix

If we can keep our minds calm on the subject of the "Eternity of God," if reason does not totter on her seat at the contemplation of underived existence, it will be strange if any other mystery
relating to God should disturb us. He who can bring his reason to bow reverently at the idea of a Being who had no beginning, is well prepared to receive any communication of His will. —
Nehemiah Adams

The new media are not ways of
relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will. —
Marshall McLuhan

I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes
relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people's craziness has not managed to make me crazy. —
Lucille Clifton

I understand now that all those antique essays and stories with which I was to compare my own work were not magnificent for their datedness or foreignness, but for saying precisely what their authors meant them to say. My teachers wished me to write accurately, always selecting the most effective words, and
relating the words to one another unambiguously, rigidly, like parts of a machine. The teachers did not want to turn me into an Englishman after all. They hoped that I would become understandable - and therefore understood. —
Kurt Vonnegut

If you're gay or lesbian, it's a biological error that inhibits you from
relating normally to the opposite sex. —
Laura Schlessinger

As she stood down below him on the street,it seemed impossible that she'd connected with him as she had,but then,the phone was virtual
relating,one step up from being online.Both people were in their own environments,invisible to each other,only their voices mixing.It was false intimacy. —
J.R. Ward

When you are spending time in front of the television, you are not doing other things. The young child of three or four years old is in the stage of the greatest emotional development that human beings undergo. And we only develop when we experience things, real-life things: a conversation with Mother, touching Father, going places, doing things,
relating to others. This kind of experience is critical to a young child, and when the child spends thirty-five hours per week in front of the TV set, it is impossible to have the full range of real-life experience that a young child must have. —
Jerry Mander

How can you not be affected by disappointments
relating to work you love so much? —
Amanda Crew

As long as we insist on
relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful. —
Wendell Berry

If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies volatile, and volatile fixed, and knows the power of the open air in promoting the former of those operations; it is not improbable, that both many things
relating to the nature of the humours, and to the ways of sweetening, actuating, and otherwise altering them, may be detected, and the importance of such discoveries may be discerned. —
Robert Boyle

Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and
relating to others. —
Marianne Williamson

It can undermine the most sincere parental commitment and force adoptees to suffer in private, choosing either rebellion or conformity as a mode of
relating. —
Sherrie Eldridge

My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some things of such Consequence still depending there,
relating to my particular Conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my Name, or the Account of my Family to this Work; perhaps, after my Death it may be better known, at present it would not be proper, no, not tho' a general Pardon should be issued, even without Exceptions and reserve of Persons or Crimes. —
Daniel Defoe

Open
relating is transparent, godly, with a commitment of the heart, without expectancy and yet devotional; it is similar to what you have with God or Supreme Consciousness. —
Vishwas Chavan

You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and
relating to what you see with unconditional love. —
Tara Brach

The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and
relating to the world as it is. —
Chogyam Trungpa

We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy, positive, visionary, expansive qualities. And it implies larger scale thinking, a freer and more expansive way of
relating to yourself and the world. —
Chogyam Trungpa

A lot of life is about how you feel
relating to dealing with this person or that person. If this person makes you feel good, then they're a person to be around; if they don't, they're not. Being in a band is different. The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with. —
Adam Duritz

I have excellent information and proof
relating to conduct of the FBI, .. I can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this case is an FBI cover-up. —
Zacarias Moussaoui

The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of
relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations. —
David Richo

I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm
relating what he's playing. —
Benny Green

My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and
relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses. —
Jon Kabat-Zinn

Love is an overarching style of
relating to another. —
Philip Yancey

Seduced by the spectacular theoretical and practical successes of the objective sciences into thinking that the methods and criteria of those sciences were the only means to truth, philosophers sought to apply those same methods and criteria to questions
relating to the meaning of life and the values that give meaning to life. Philosophy, especially the Analytical species prevalent in the English-speaking world, was broken up into specialized disciplines and fragmented into particular problems, all swayed and impregnated by scientism, reductionism, and relativism. All questions of meaning and value were consigned to the rubbish heap of 'metaphysical nonsense'. —
D.R. Khashaba

But in spacious, vigorous story-telling, in the use of an historical framework, in the
relating of human events to a larger philosophical and spiritual context, in the deployment of fiction as a social and political weapon, in the exultation of 'the people' as a supreme authority, in the treatment of suffering as a dominant theme--in all these matters Hugo exerted a profound influence on Tolstoy. —
Peter Washington

However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information
relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles either. —
Robert M. Pirsig

What she really wants is a place with more tolerance for differences, less emphasis on materialism, where people value creativity and are interested in working on issues
relating to peace and justice. —
Peter Singer

Service is a prerequisite for anything
relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable. —
Vera Wang

Absolutely no religious rites of any kind,
relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral —
Arthur C. Clarke

The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches of government in matters
relating to the rights of persons and property. —
Charles A. Beard

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs
relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'. —
Kurt Vonnegut

When I photograph, I am always
relating things to one another. Photography shows the connection between things, how they relate. —
Leonard Freed

Nowhere is moral shortcoming more prevalent than in the intersection between our espoused morality and the way we engage romantic and sexual partners. In truth, how we function sexually is a microcosm of the way that we are in the world. We might ask ourselves, "Are we being selfish, considerate, or dismissive? Are we minimizing, compliant or controlling?" Sex is the ultimate laboratory where we can actually try out new ways of
relating to ourselves and our lover, being conscious and mindful of how we impact another person. It takes great humility to open a genuine exploration of our lived
not just stated
morality. But to live by the dictates of our own internal compass brings equally great joy, serenity, and self-respect. —
Alexandra Katehakis

As I grew older, my love for reading grew stronger. I read with studious interest everything I could find
relating to colored men who had gained prominence. My heroes had been King David, then Robert the Bruce; now Frederick Douglass was enshrined in the place of honor. —
James Weldon Johnson

Languages are the bearers of the cultural genes. As we learn a language, accents, and ways of speaking, we also learn ways of thinking, feeling, and
relating. —
Ken Robinson

Neither black/red/yellow nor woman but poet or writer. For many of us, the question of priorities remains a crucial issue. Being merely "a writer" without a doubt ensures one a status of far greater weight than being "a woman of color who writes" ever does. Imputing race or sex to the creative act has long been a means by which the literary establishment cheapens and discredits the achievements of non-mainstream women writers. She who "happens to be" a (non-white) Third World member, a woman, and a writer is bound to go through the ordeal of exposing her work to the abuse and praises and criticisms that either ignore, dispense with, or overemphasize her racial and sexual attributes. Yet the time has passed when she can confidently identify herself with a profession or artistic vocation without questioning and
relating it to her color-woman condition. —
Trinh T. Minh-ha

If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something
relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government. —
George Crook

I just enjoy being onstage and
relating to the audience. —
Idina Menzel

More and more, I find myself turning away from everything
relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in. —
Patrick DeWitt

Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is something which a person can do over and above the given material of her nature, and that is she can become conscious of what makes her the person she is, and he can work consciously toward
relating what is himself to the world around him. —
Carl Jung

There is an art to acting, and there are techniques that are acquired. You can be as emotional as you'd like, as a person, but figuring out ways that you can bring specific emotions at specific times and have them be true, and
relating to someone as someone that they're not, is a lot. —
Zoe Bell

I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone,
relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved; and of each page, only here and there a few lines. —
Charles Darwin

Is it only in the army in the Philippines that Americans sometimes commit deeds that cause all other Americans to regret?
[Theodore Roosevelt 1901
relating reports of water torture in the Philippines to lynching in the south] —
Theodore Roosevelt

The gospel keeps me
relating to God on the basis of Jesus's perfections, not on the illusions of my religious achievements. —
Gloria Furman

The paintings are like prayers,
relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life. —
Susan Rothenberg

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just
relating to one another. —
Natasha Lyonne

They are teachers who point to their teaching or show some particular way. In all of these, there emerges an instruction, a way of living. It is not Zoroaster to whom you turn. It is Zoroaster to whom you listen. It is not Buddha who delivers you; it is his Noble Truths that instruct you. It is not Mohammed who transforms you; it is the beauty of the Koran that woos you. By contrast, Jesus did not only teach or expound His message. He was identical with His message. "In Him," say the Scriptures, "dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily." He did not just proclaim the truth. He said, "I am the truth." He did not just show a way. He said, "I am the Way." He did not just open up vistas. He said, "I am the door." "I am the Good Shepherd." "I am the resurrection and the life." "I am the I AM." In Him is not just an offer of life's bread. He is the bread. That is why being a Christian is not just a way of feeding and living. Following Christ begins with a way of
relating and being. —
Ravi Zacharias

How do we break free from the dichotomies that limit God's power in our lives? How can love and service to God become living sparks that light up our whole lives? By discovering a worldview perspective that unifies *both* secular and sacred, public and private, within a single framework. By understanding that all honest work and creative enterprise can be a valid calling from the Lord. And by realizing that there are biblical principles that apply to every field of work. These insights will fill us with purpose, and we will begin to experience the joy that comes from
relating to God in and through every dimension of our lives. —
Nancy Pearcey

There are several theories and hundreds of different beliefs
relating to Bible prophecy, but we should never lose sight of this fact, that God is not bound by what we believe, no matter how strongly we believe it. All of God's promises and prophecies will be fulfilled in accordance with the Scriptures, following His plan, purpose and will. —
Robert A. Hunt Jr.

I try as hard as I know how to keep my reader
relating on a broad level so I don't lead her someplace where she thinks that's the only thing that could cause insecurity. —
Beth Moore

I sort of wanted to reveal this other side of Asia: Southeast Asia, where the Chinese have been wealthy for generations and have different ways of
relating to money. I wanted to sort of reveal this world to readers. —
Kevin Kwan

Parents need much wisdom in
relating to their grown children - and much prayer. Children likewise have much to learn about
relating to their parents as the years pass. —
Billy Graham

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm
relating to them something that's quite personal. —
Enya

We are so achievement-oriented that we often surge right by the true value of
relating to what's before us, because we think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will. —
Mark Nepo

I shudder when
relating it. —
Virgil

I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of
relating. —
Richard Rohr

If you get into the mental habit of
relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom. —
Charlie Munger

When a child is young," Burck explained one night (perhaps he was
relating Hauber's analogy), "you can catch him if he falls. Then he —
Blake Bailey

Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively
relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green. —
James Howard Kunstler
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I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am not interested in trying desperately to make Art but I am interested in
relating to the marvelous extravagance of Life. —
John Gutmann

When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of
relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life. —
Andrei Tarkovsky

To live is a constant process of
relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to "this is this" or "that is that." I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on. —
Bruce Lee

If you are having difficulty loving or
relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne. —
Charles R. Swindoll

I was discussing it with my teacher, over the jeejah - no pictures, just our voices. We had this long talk about this nerve and the muscles and ligaments around it and how I should manipulate them to help alleviate the problem, and suddenly I just flashed on how weird the whole thing was - two of us both
relating to this image - this model - of another person's body that was in his mind and in my mind, but - " "Also seemingly in a third place," I suggested, "a shared place." "That's what it felt like. It freaked me out for a little while, but then I put it out of my mind because I thought I was just being weird. —
Neal Stephenson

We need to change our way of seeing the world and
relating to it, not because our current way is intrinsically bad or "evil," but because we have become too powerful to continue to live as we have been living. Whether we like it or not, collectively we have become the most powerful factor in determining not only the future of human society, but also the direction of the entire planet with all its life-forms. —
Ilchi Lee

At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the
relating. —
Haruki Murakami

University, "The traditional Inuit diet is fats and proteins, no sugar at all. It is probably one of the healthiest diets you can have. The human body is built for that. "(2007). If this high-protein, high-fat diet is so healthy, why don't we hear more about its positive effects? Probably for a lot of reasons, some
relating to our "for-profit" health care system, —
Zach Laboube

This is why the "apply some principles" approach to marriage improvement doesn't work. So long as we choose to turn a blind eye to how we are fallen as men or women, and to the unique style of
relating that we have forged out of our sin and brokenness, we will continue to do damage to our marriages. —
John Eldredge

It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and ressurection; the waters, plants, woman, fecundity, and immortality; the cosmic darkness, prenatal existence, and life after death, followed by the rebirth of the lunar type ("light coming out of darkness"); weaving, the symbol of the "thread of life," fate, temporality, and death; and yet others. In general most of the ideas of cycle, dualism, polarity, opposition, conflict, but also of reconciliation of contraries, of coincidentia oppositorum, were either discovered or clarified by virtue of lunar symbolism. We may even speak of a metaphysics of the moon, in the sense of a consistent system of "truths"
relating to the mode of being peculiar to living creatures, to everything in the cosmos that shares in life, that is, in becoming, growth and waning, death and ressurrection. —
Mircea Eliade

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not
relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years. —
Bret Easton Ellis

We're not shallow people. Rather, we've just gotten used to
relating on levels that avoid soul issues. —
Kary Oberbrunner

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men
relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot. —
John Cusack

I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of
relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those laws which govern inanimate bodies; but, although novel, this truth is none the less incontestable. To hold that the phenomena of life are entirely distinct from the general phenomena of nature is to commit a grave error, it is to oppose the continued progress of science. —
Francois Magendie

Today most of the debate on the cutting edge in macroeconomics would not call itself "Keynesian" or "monetarist" or any other label
relating to a school of thought. The data are considered the ruling principle, and it is considered suspect to have too strong a loyalty to any particular model about the underlying structure of the economy. —
Tyler Cowen

After several days, I had a pivotal interview with my teacher. When I described how I'd become so overwhelmed, she calmly asked, "How are you
relating to the presence of desire?" I was startled into understanding. Her question pointed me back to the essence of mindfulness practice: It doesn't matter what is happening. What matters is how we are
relating to our experience. For me, desire had become the enemy, and I was losing the battle. She advised me to stop fighting my experience and instead investigate the nature of my wanting mind. Desire was just another passing phenomenon, she reminded me. It was attachment or aversion to it that was the problem. —
Tara Brach