Make Sense Quotes - Page 26

• Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.

  William Saroyan

  Cancer, Believe, Cutting

  William Saroyan (1968). “I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure”

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• ... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyond speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves.

  Hannah Arendt

  Truth, Moving, Men

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• In the Middle Age, in Germany, if you wanted to learn addition and multiplication, you could go to any university. But if you wanted to learn division, you could only do it in one place, Heidelberg. This makes sense, since in my theory with Vladimir Retakh and Robert Wilson, addition and multiplications are cheap, but division is expensive.

  Israel Gelfand

  Science, Age, Germany

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• Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was so clearly a religiously inspired movement that entered the public arena and made a major difference in American life.

  Bruce L. Shelley

  Christian, Religious, Biblical

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• I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

  Abigail Washburn

  China, Western, Stills

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• The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but only if there is a common co-ordinate system on which to plot them; yet the existence of a common system belies the claim of dramatic incomparability.

  Donald Davidson

  Views, Plot, Common

  Donald Davidson (2001). “Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays”, p.184, Oxford University Press

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• Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, “The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity’ as if it were a number. It’s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?’ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,’ ‘truth,’ ‘beauty’—those are not numbers.

  John Derbyshire

  Beauty, Math, Numbers

  John Derbyshire (2003). “Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics”, p.21, Joseph Henry Press

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• One thing that definitely did calculate properly for me was the mathematics that makes sense every day, no matter how I look at it, I can't get around it. I try to get around it, I keep trying to find one plus one is not two, somehow. I can't. People can talk about string theory, parallel realities, different dimensions, it's still one plus one is two, baby.

  RZA

  Baby, Reality, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I ever thought of directing again, I mean - I don't know, even the idea of directing a film is a strange one for me, because I feel kind of anti mathematics in a way in that sense. Anti - I don't like when things make sense, I prefer if they don't, so if I made a film, it wouldn't make any sense and no one would see it. So maybe I'll just make little films at home with my phone, never to be released.

  Johnny Depp

  Home, Mean, Phones

  "Johnny Depp interview Pirates of the Caribbean On Strangers Tides". www.moviesonline.ca. November 24th, 2017.

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• The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the most about the spy genre is when you have a great bad guy. What makes a great bad guy, to me, is the logic. What he's about has to make sense to me, that if I was in his shoes, yeah, right, that makes sense.

  John Lasseter

  Thinking, Genre Is, Shoes

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

  Mac DeMarco

  Blue, Jewels, Wave

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better.

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Perspective, Ifs

  "Anne Hathaway Talks Fighting in Heels, Adapting to Nolan’s Universe, Filming in Imax and More on the Set of the Dark Knight Rises". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• The American dream only makes sense if you're sleeping.

  Lowkey

  Dream, Sleep, Ifs

  Song: Obama Nation 2, Album: Soundtrack To Struggle

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• One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

  Terri E Apter

  Self, Goal, Decision

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• For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

  Stacy Allison

  Rocks, Ice, Snow

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• You've got to make choices that make sense for you because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently.

  Michelle Obama

  Thinking, Choices, Should

  "Michelle Obama misses life without scrutiny". www.today.com. August 05, .2010.

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• Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mean

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• If there were a truly existent I,
  It would make sense to be afraid of certain things;
  But, since there is no truly existent I,
  Who is there to be afraid?

  Shantideva

  Certain, Ifs

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• Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Jobs, Air

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• I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Trying, Typical, World

  "Robert Anton Wilson on Wilhelm Reich". Interview, March 1995.

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• I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against a meaningful background. It is the deeper meaning that is shedding light on the absurdity. There must be a vanish point, a metaphysical horizon if you will where absurdity and meaning merge.

  Vaclav Havel

  Meaningful, Strong, Light

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• I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.

  Akhil

  People, Biased

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• People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Helping, Rich

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• Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

  Nancy Meyers

  Romantic, Character, Mean

  "Nancy Meyers: The rom-com queen". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.independent.co.uk. January 9, 2010.

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• It's not something that I can put on and take off anymore, like I said, I've had my years of confusion and wondering who I really (was) and why and how do I live my life and make sense of it all, but I'm not confused about that any longer. I think the world might be -- but I'm not.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Life, Confused, Thinking

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