"Thinking ... is a soundless dialogue, it is the weaving of patterns, it is a search for meaning. The activity of thought contributes to and shapes all that is specifically human."

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Source : Vera John-Steiner (1997). “Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking”, p.210, Oxford University Press

Vera John-Steiner

#Thinking Quotes #Patterns Quotes #Weaving Quotes

“Let's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic 2.0 together. This time, it's not stock market money but private equity, M&A, VCs and to some degree the reckless abandonment of logic by some advertisers who are perpetuating what is sure to end badly when the economy turns. Hubris is back my friends.”

Source : "Is the bottom about to fall out of Web 2.0?" by Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2007.
“Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire.”
“Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.”
“Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.”
“Yeah, writers do hate writing.”
“Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.”
“Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.”
“No fair, sky. I'm the one who feels like crying.”

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