"My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am."

-- China Mieville

#Information Quotes #Increase Quotes #Intervention Quotes

“There are three kinds of feedback and organizations must utilize all three to be effective: 1. Evaluation. This rates you against standards and peers. It lets you know where you stand. 2. Coaching. This information helps you get better and learn. It is an engine for learning. 3. Appreciation. Most desire for feedback is usually for appreciation. It motivates us.”
“I think anytime you set out to start doing something, it's always a difficult thing. It's a theory of a blank sheet of paper, for an artist; It's a challenge to put yourself in that position in life, and even in your mind, to put the two together. But you have to, and so that's what you do. I tend to look at it as less than a problem than a process.”
“The child, unhampered, does not waste time.”

Source : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Aug 23, 2013
“What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.”
“I'm never going to be a Tom Clancy. And I wouldn't really want to be - not that I have anything against him, and I wish him continued success - because that's not why I'm writing novels. I'm doing it because I have to. I feel like I have to, anyway.”
“I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.”

Source : Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
“Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.”

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