— Malcolm Gladwell journalist and science writer 1963
Quelle: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
„The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.“
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— Alan Turing, Computable Numbers
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (1936)
„The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.“
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin French philosopher and Jesuit priest 1881 - 1955
— Octavio Paz Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature 1914 - 1998
Quelle: The Monkey Grammarian (1974), Ch. 4
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Kontext: Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary — or would not be fixity. What did I mean by that phrase? I probably had in mind the opposition between motion and motionlessness, an opposition that the adverb always designates as continual and universal: it embraces all of time and applies to every circumstance. My phrase tends to dissolve this opposition and hence represents a sly violation of the principle of identity. I say “sly” because I chose the word momentary as an adjectival qualifier of fixity in order to tone down the violence of the contrast between movement and motionlessness. A little rhetorical trick intended to give an air of plausibility to my violation of the rules of logic. The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern. We ought to subject language to a diet of bread and water if we wish to keep it from being corrupted and from corrupting us. (The trouble is that a-diet-of-bread-and-water is a figurative expression, as is the-corruption-of-language-and-its-contagions.) It is necessary to unweave (another metaphor) even the simplest phrases in order to determine what it is that they contain (more figurative expressions) and what they are made of and how (what is language made of? and most important of all, is it already made, or is it something that is perpetually in the making?). Unweave the verbal fabric: reality will appear. (Two metaphors.) Can reality be the reverse of the fabric, the reverse of metaphor — that which is on the other side of language? (Language has no reverse, no opposite faces, no right or wrong side.) Perhaps reality too is a metaphor (of what and/or of whom?). Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things. With whom and of what do word-things speak? (This page is a sack of word-things.) It may be that, like things which speak to themselves in their language of things, language does not speak of things or of the world: it may speak only of itself and to itself.
— John Howard Payne American actor and writer 1791 - 1852
Home, Sweet Home (1822), from the opera of "Clari, the Maid of Milan", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Home is home, though it be never so homely", John Clarke, Paræmiologia, p. 101. (1639).
„Youth, what man's age is like to be doth show,
We may our ends by our beginnings know.“
— John Denham English poet and courtier 1615 - 1669
Of Prudence, line 225.
— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
— Lars Rudebeck 1937
Quelle: Politics and Structural Adjustment in a West-African Village (1990). AKUT, Uppsala universitet, p. 20
— Mitch Albom, buch The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Quelle: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
— El Lissitsky Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer and architect 1890 - 1941
Quote in a letter to his wife Sophie Küppers (February 1926):' (letter 8-2-1926, Lissitzky-Küppers), Archive van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1990
1926 - 1941
— Ronnie James Dio American singer 1942 - 2010
From "Dio's Live At The Spectrum" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwX8yF8k0ls
— Clifford Geertz, buch The Interpretation of Cultures
Quelle: The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), p. 45
— Bible
Quelle: Proverbs 14:12-14
— Dion Fortune British occultist and author 1890 - 1946
Violet M. Firth (Dion Fortune) (1922), The Machinery of the Mind. p. 96
„It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.“
— Mary Stewart, Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy
Quelle: Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy
— Frederick Buechner Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian 1926
Quelle: The Magnificent Defeat
— Nigel Cumberland British author and leadership coach 1967
page 210
Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Managing Teams in a Week (2013) https://books.google.ae/books?idqZjO9_ov74EC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIIDAB#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Secrets of Success at Work – 50 techniques to excel (2014) https://books.google.ae/books?id4S7vAgAAQBAJ&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIJjAC#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse
Kontext: It is not just a question of needing courage to do something. There may also be a cost of not acting in the first place and sometimes doing nothing is not an option, with the challenge being to minimize the potential risks of any choice you do make.
