Form Quotes - Page 51

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.

You are transformed by beholding, not by working.

Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.

It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold.

I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously.

You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.

Relativism poses as freedom but it is just another form of tyranny: You must believe that all religions are equal because we say they are. You must agree with us that everything is relative, or we will punish you.

It seems evident that the basis for civil safety is homogeneity. A culture which is socially uniform is pretty well devoid of informal violence.

You have to understand not just what your customers need, but how and where they prefer to access information.

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

Information is power. If you have information about the whole planet you have power over the whole planet. By knowing what people do in Germany they, of course, have power over them.

Your level of performance matches your dominant self image.

God calls us first... not to a platform, but to an altar!

There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.

Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from television or the web, and people are sounding off about something that's not necessarily true.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.