Convenient Quotes - Page 4

• The reality is that the NBA was in worse shape in the '70s and early '80s. People have convenient memories.

  Mike Thibault

  Memories, Reality, Nba

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• Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into three simple categories, though the distinctions are in no way absolute, nor are they always so described: product design (things), environment design (places) and communication design (messages).

  Norman Potter

  Communication, Simple, Design

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• The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

  L. Bruce Archer

  Design, Calling, Done

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• Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.

  Lisa Gansky

  Information, Irresistible, Devices

  "Welcome To The World Wide Mesh: Where Access Trumps Ownership" by Lisa Gansky, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• The key to the U.N.'s global warming study was man's use of aerosol spray. You have to know the French were involved in a study concluding that Arrid Extra Dry is destroying the Earth. In a world in which everyone smelled, the French would be at no disadvantage. Aerosol spray. How convenient.

  Ann Coulter

  Men, Keys, Would Be

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• There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's a lot of risk in the world of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Risk

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• Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.

  E. Nesbit

  Time, Fiction

  E. Nesbit (2010). “The Phoenix and the Carpet”, p.272, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as a bridge to the noumenal or as a body of fictions convenient for grappling with transitory phenomena.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Bridges, Important, Fiction

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.136, University of Chicago Press

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• Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Girl, Uncles, Aunt

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• Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

  Wayne Dyer

  Friends, Writing, Phones

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 17, 2012

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• The winter oak... is very useful in buildings but when in a moist place it takes in water to its centre... and so it rots. The Turkey oak and the beech both... take in moisture to their centre and soon decay. White and black poplar, as well as willow, linden, and the agnus castus... are of great service from their stiffness... they are a convenient material to use in carving.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Winter, Turkeys, White

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter IX, Section 9), circa 15 BC.

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• When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.

  Clemence Poesy

  Normal, Fame, Position

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• Practicing yoga does not eliminate life’s challenges, and neither does it provide us with a convenient trap-door to escape from life’s distractions. Instead, Yoga gives us the skills to meet life head-on with dignity and poise.

  Donna Farhi

  Yoga, Doors, Skills

  Donna Farhi (2008). “Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free us from their impertinent solicitations. I flatter myself, that I have discovered an argument ... which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures. For so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history, sacred and profane.

  David Hume

  Wise, Long, Silence

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1992). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.73, Hackett Publishing

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• Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Filing

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• One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sweet, Buddhism, Science

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• It's so unique. Wilson Park is just such a gem. It's in a convenient location.

  David Wright

  Unique, Parks, Location

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• Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Cute, Rainbow, Together

  Lisa Kleypas (2011). “Scandal In Spring: Number 4 in series”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.

  John C. Maxwell

  Successful, Doe, Mood

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• The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and money were not needed. Then the idea grew that it was more convenient to leave the basin on his head. Stray thoughts were trimmed along with stray hair; brain-vines, tentacles of thought, were not encouraged to wander. Then, in the interests of human economy, the head of adaptable man became a basin of uniform shape—a basin, a crash helmet. Safe at last; no more thought-cuts.

  Janet Frame

  Cutting, Men, Hair

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• But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.

  Irvine Welsh

  Memories, Blow, Past

  Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.86, Random House

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• A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Doe, Height, Faces

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary and transient intent, but they are, in their fundamental nature, arbitrary and exist solely as a convenient construct in the minds of man. Lives are messy, and when we set out to relate them, or parts of them, we cannot ever discern precise and objective moments when any given event began. All beginnings are arbitrary.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Men, Mind, Events

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• We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence. The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory - but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, by bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Memories, Long, Risk

  Nicholas G. Carr (2010). “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains”, p.192, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient--- it's not useful--- to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it.

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Believe, Events

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