"conversation is now pretty well a lost art."

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Source : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1907). “The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, Arnold

Dorothy Nevill

#Art Quotes #Lost Quotes #Conversation Quotes

“I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.”
“None of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.”
“Everything I do in investment is just very different.”
“The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.”
“If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever.”
“I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing, we may one day exchange information with these sentient cellular networks. Because these externalized neurological nets sense any impression upon them, from footsteps to falling tree branches, they could relay enormous amounts of data regarding the movements of all organisms through the landscape.”

Source : Paul Stamets (2011). “Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World”, p.31, Ten Speed Press
“PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.”

Source : "PowerPoint Is Evil" by Edward Tufte, www.wired.com. September 1, 2003.
“Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others.”

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