"Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture."

-- Dale Dauten

#Mean Quotes #Skills Quotes #Decision Quotes

“The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.”

Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.136, Courier Corporation
“I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.”
“There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.”

Source : "Martha Smith on: The Impact of the Bravo Test". PBS interview for "Race for the Superbomb" on "American Experience",
“I don't think about art when I'm working. I think about life.”
“I use music as something from which I obtain some form of - I hate to use the word spiritual - guidance, an awareness of something more than the day-to-day or the petty. I am not reading Emanuel Kant to try to embark on a task of seeing if I can understand myself, what the aesthetic experience is. But I wholeheartedly believe in it, even though I think not too many do nowadays.”
“I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which will correct physical faults and prepare a dancer for any type of dancing he may wish to follow; a technique having all the basic movements which govern the actions of the body; combined with a knowledge of the origin of movement and a sense of artistic design.”
“Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.”

Source : James Huneker (1913). “The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments”
“I've always had a feeling that the image is 50% of the emotion that an audience feels and it's subliminal. Yet, how you arrange the elements in front of a camera has an impact on people's belief about that world in some way.”

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