537 quotes found
Time after the present
“Creativity has often been analogized as “Thinking outside of the box.”
“Consider this: when you stand at the entry to a steel factory, you can make out through the smoke some men, some metal, the fires. The furnaces roar, the hammers crash; and the metalworkers who for...”
“Human mind & news Media work on the same principle: Unsatisfied with the past”
“If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, nowadays, than dead sounds. They would be, in a word, sounds other than what they actually were, and...”
“Her love could stretch on unconditionally and endlessly, like it’s a universe within her. I’m drawn to the edge of that universe. I’d like to fall into a black hole of it somehow. I just whisper, “...”
“Try not to attract stress in your life through procrastination”
“Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster”
“The comparison isn't with others”
“There was not a moving up into vacated places”
“Justice isn’t about fixing the past”
“In the past the man has been first”
“The mindset (perspective) is the consequence of “rules.”
“Blame anchors us into the past”
“Never give up on learning because what you put up there in your brain,” he indicated my head with his index finger, “the Communists won’t ever be able to take away from you.”
“Stalin is dead! Stalin is dead! No school today!” we yelled. “Stalin is dead! No school today...” was a chant to linger in my ears for years to come.”
“The ability of one to affect many is scaling exponentially — and it's scaling for good and it's scaling for evil.”
“Never has nostalgia held stronger sway”
“We are not going to reduce energy capture unless catastrophe forces us to—which means that the only way to avoid running out of resources, poisoning the planet, or both, will be by tapping into ren...”
“By 1870, Britain’s steam engines generated 4 million horsepower, equivalent to the work of 40 million men, who—if industry had still depended on muscles—would have eaten more than three times Brita...”
“Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell’s argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen, the world’s ugliest and most expensive hyd...”
