Coordination Quotes

• I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Kids, Eye

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• Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

  Auguste Comte

  Different, Would Be, Facts

  Auguste Comte (1851). “The Philosophy of Mathematics”, p.26

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• You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

  Sam Altman

  Two, Innovation, Three

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• The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Sports, Car, Racing

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. August 2, 2002.

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• One is attracted to beauty. Beauty is the coordination of things, in such a way, that it is what attracts you. It's almost self-defining.

  Mark Helprin

  Self, Way, Defining

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• Music is...the coordination between man and time.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Men, Music Is

  Igor Stravinsky (1958). “An autobiography”

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• Spontaneity is not enough - or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form, space and vision.

  Herbert Read

  Space, Vision, Spontaneity

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• Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.

  Thomas Sowell

  Communication, Decision, Problem

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.26, Basic Books

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• Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

  Herbert Spencer

  Truth, Lying, Opinion

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• Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

  Mary Douglas

  Equality, Doe, Way

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• We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Skills, Effort, Way

  "How David Beats Goliath" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2009.

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• Great pilots are made not born. . . . A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice, and experience.

  Johnnie Johnson

  Men, Hands, Practice

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• I have zero hand-eye coordination - zero - so I've never been good at softball, basketball, golf, things like that, but I'm really strong and I have really good endurance so I can go forever - I'm a tough girl.

  Brooklyn Decker

  Basketball, Girl, Softball

  "Brooklyn Decker is everywhere before movies' debut". Interview with Samantha Critchell, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. May 17, 2012.

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• Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.

  Joseph Pilates

  Mind, Body, Spirit

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

  Jim Ramstad

  Community, Directors, Needs

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• Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Men, Order

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• Whenever I eat at a restaurant I never put the napkin in my lap. People say, 'Hannibal, why don't you put the napkin in your lap?' Because I believe in myself. I believe in my ability to not spill food in my pants 'cause I'm a goddamn adult. And I've mastered the art of getting food from my plate to my mouth without messing up my jeans. You need to believe in yourself, too and get your life together, that's for babies. Have some confidence in your eating abilities and hand/eye coordination.

  Hannibal Buress

  Confidence, Baby, Art

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• Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is all hooked together, a system of coordination.

  Dallas Willard

  Soul, Together, Would Be

  Source: renovare.org

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• Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.

  Piers Anthony

  Warrior, Common Sense, Weapons

  Piers Anthony (2002). “Golem in the Gears”, p.288, Del Rey

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• To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

  Cliff Shaw

  Communication, Information Processing, Personality

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• We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans.

  Jan Egeland

  Effort, Needs, Development

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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• It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

  Neil Peart

  Sports, Team, Athlete

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• Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Children, Weather

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• I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Agency, Improvement, States

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• The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.

  Jason Statham

  Fighting, Exercise, Training

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