Process Quotes - Page 35

• One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it.

  Jeff Cooper

  Order, Law, Needs

  28 Copy quote

• Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Rights, Agreement, People

  4 Copy quote

• We are involved in an intense battle. It is a battle between right and wrong, between truth and error, between the design of the Almighty on the one hand and that of Lucifer on the other. For that reason, we desperately need moral men and women who stand on principle, to be involved in the political process. Otherwise, we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Selfish, Men, Errors

  5 Copy quote

• When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of their liberty. That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is the liberty of the people to set their own social agenda through the process of democracy.

  Robert Bork

  People, Judging, Democracy

  20 Copy quote

• Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.

  Herbert Simon

  Thinking, Design Process, Generations

  21 Copy quote

• However unapproachable these problems may seem to us and however helpless we stand before them, we have, nevertheless, the firm conviction that their solution must follow by a finite number of purely logical processes.

  David Hilbert

  Finite Number, Numbers, May

  27 Copy quote

• Film is the packaging of information in cans. Videotape is involved with the feeding back of process. Film rips information away from the situation for use elsewhere. Videotape can be fed back into a given situation and enrich experience. Film extends man as a spectator. Videotape extends man as a cybernator. Film imports information. Videotape implodes indigenous data.

  Paul Ryan

  Rip, Men, Data

  5 Copy quote

• The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Alphabet, Detachment

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of man nor any combination of minds can even envision, let alone intelligently control, the countless human energy exchanges in a simple society, to say nothing of a complex one.

  Leonard Read

  Simple, Men, Self

  "Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism". Book by Leonard Read, July 28, 2015.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

  Thomas Sowell

  Credit, May, Facts

  "Bankrupt ‘Exploiters’" by Thomas Sowell, www.nationalreview.com. July 22, 2008.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.

  Sheldon Richman

  Jobs, Government, Investing

  7 Copy quote

• In the name of short-term stimulus, he [Obama] will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of $1,000 euphemistically called a refundable tax credit. And he will so sharply cut taxes on the middle class and the poor that the number of Americans who pay no federal income tax will rise from the current one-third of all households to more than half. In the process, he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever-expanding welfare checks from the government.

  Dick Morris

  Cutting, Government, Class

  4 Copy quote

• Effective education may also require co-opting old faculties to deal with new demands. . . Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may not always be easy and pleasant, notwithstanding the mantra that learning is fun.

  Steven Pinker

  Fun, Demand, May

  4 Copy quote

• It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated only to the extent that they are capable of recognizing themselves as unfinished.

  Paulo Freire

  Men, Unfinished, Educated

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.58, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you're optimizing.

  Fred Brooks

  Beach, Team, Ocean

  "Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. July 28, 2010.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• That is the really great thing about being an adult male, once you get married and have children the whole decision-making process is taken out of your hands, and I for one am extremely grateful.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, Taken, Grateful

  "PJ O'Rourke: 'Menus have become another intelligence test at which I fail'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.

  George Will

  Discovery, Profound, President

  4 Copy quote

• Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than itself- and this on the basis of no expert knowledge, of nothing closed to the ordinary human being, once... [one] lets himself or herself be informed by the process and ambition of philosophy.

  Stanley Cavell

  Philosophy, Ambition, Foundation

  10 Copy quote

• It is an honor and a privilege to be of service and support; however, I realize people are not putting their confidence in me. Instead, they are actually learning to trust themselves. My job is to affirm and support them in the process and teach them to do what I do when I need strength: I begin within.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Jobs, People, Support

  4 Copy quote

• Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today's disadvantaged to become tomorrow's privileged and, in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a fuller and richer life.

  Milton Friedman

  Mean, Opportunity, Diversity

  Milton Friedman (2017). “Milton Friedman on Freedom: Selections from The Collected Works of Milton Friedman”, p.127, Hoover Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Warren Buffett has said many times that people either get value investing in five minutes or they won't get it in five years. So, there is something in the human brain, that for some of us, makes all the difference in the world right away and the patience it requires is part of the wiring process.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Differences, Years, People

  14 Copy quote

• Courage is a function of process.

  Seth Klarman

  Function

  "Jason Zweig Interviews Seth Klarman At CFA Institute Annual Conference". Interview with Jason Zweig, www.gurufocus.com. July 15, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our attitude toward cash generation and asset management came out of our own thought process. After we acquired a number of businesses we reflected on aspects of business. Our own conclusion was that the key was cash flow.

  Henry Earl Singleton

  Attitude, Keys, Cash Flow

  9 Copy quote

• [ Blue is the Warmest Color ] was really a film about two people having to go through a relationship which everyone knew would lead to a breakup and the pain that that entails. Anybody can see that story, what leads to that, and identify with it. As a filmmaker, I wanted to construct this identification process with the characters so that you fully connect to their emotions and what their breakup [represents].

  Abdellatif Kechiche

  Breakup, Pain, Character

  Source: collider.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

  Abdellatif Kechiche

  Writing, Here And There, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source