"These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection."

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Geoffrey Miller

#Creativity Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Leadership is not for the faint of heart”
“The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.”
“Because our ladies mostly attend Kalatshepams, (Religious discourses) they have fallen prey to the superstitions, blind beliefs, and immorality by the false and fictituous propaganda of the Brahmins”

Source : Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 517, 2005.
“A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.”

Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 58), 1968.
“Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.”

Source : J. Budziszewski (2010). “The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man”, p.15, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a victim? Somewhat. Am I afraid? Always. Does some part of me still long to fly away from this place? Absolutely. But I can't leave. Sam and I have built a life for Joy. It isn't perfect, but it's a life. My family's happiness means more to me that starting over again. Page 210”
“Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? 'Don't overcoach.'”
“Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.”

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