"A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)"

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Dale Dauten

#Moving Quotes #Bored Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.”
“Texas is reportedly going to give college students the right to carry guns on campus. So I guess that next semester, every college student in Texas is getting straight A's.”
“The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.”
“The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.”

Source : Abraham Flexner (2017). “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge”, p.52, Princeton University Press
“When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.”

Source : Christopher Alexander (1977). “A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction”, p.747, Oxford University Press
“Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub.”
“I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.”
“Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.”

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