"Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can."

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John Boyd Orr

#Country Quotes #World Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“Intel's Pentium III processor operating at 1 GHz is the highest performance microprocessor for PCs, enabling Intel's customers to ship the fastest personal computers in the world,”
“All sorts of problems and the interconnectedness between them that [Buckminster Fuller] was able to perceive sometimes rightly, often wrongly, always interestingly and also the fact that he was looking at solutions often that were not feasible in his own time but potentially could be applied today.”
“How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his or her own mind, a talent psychologists call metacognition. We know when we are angry; every emotional state comes with self-awareness attached, so that an individual can try to figure out why he's feeling what he's feeling. If the particular feeling makes no senseâ€”if the amygdala is simply responding to a loss frame, for exampleâ€”then it can be discounted. The prefrontal cortex can deliberately choose to ignore the emotional brain.”
“We will breakfast together here and dine together in hell.”
“I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not to allow someone hit on him period because I want him to think that this pocket is completely safe, no one is going to get to me and I got all the time in the world to make whatever decisions I need to make.”
“Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.”
“Larry Bird just throws the ball in the air and God moves the basket underneath it.”
“There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory.”

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