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• As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it's not a flow; it's a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Flow, Different, Introducing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and what the world is like. But this very, very important quality of subjectivity, this quality that allows us to take a distant view and say, "I am here, I exist, I have a life and there are things around me that refer to me." That me-ness, M-E-hyphen, that is what really constitutes consciousness.

  Antonio Damasio

  Names, Mind, Important

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.

  Louis Menand

  College, Body, Curriculum

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or views in general. You want the market to work in the way the market works.

  Louis Menand

  Thinking, Political, Trying

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Simple, Clouds, Ideas

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans.

  Tod Machover

  Use, Harmony

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think the biggest hurdle American feminists have in terms of taking a more global approach is that too often when you hear American feminists talk about international feminism or women in other countries, it kind of goes along with this condescending point of view like we have to save the women of such-and-such country; we have to help them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Thinking, Feminist

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important.

  Chris Hughes

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Differences

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• I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that.

  Tim Cook

  Zero, Giving Up, Believe

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 10, 2016.

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• The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.

  Tim Cook

  War, Reality, Thinking

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

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• One of the big things that we wanted to do was trying to kick out a car window as you're driving after it's been shattered obstructing your view. I mean, that's - I can't count how many movies I've seen that in, and we just thought, you know, like, it could be funny if it just kind of goes wrong and this foot just kind of punctures through the window and gets stuck.

  Seth Rogen

  Mean, Feet, Car

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• I do a lot of laughing at my own self in life, so I think I come at things with a pretty easygoing view.

  Andy Samberg

  Thinking, Self, Laughing

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I used to stand in front of the mirror in my bedroom. I shared a bedroom - like a lot of people in my era, in my neighborhood - with my two brothers and an uncle. And I'd stand there in front of the mirror over the dresser and I would practice: meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views of Cicero, Bacon and Baba.

  Joe Biden

  Brother, Uncles, Growing Up

  "On Becoming Joe Biden". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 1, 2007.

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• I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.

  Steve Martin

  War, Years, Careers

  "Born Standing Up". Book by Steve Martin, www.npr.org. November 20, 2007.

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• As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is struck. Control, servitude, respect, imagination, pragmatism, an ecological conscience, compliance, and a certain measure of mysticism and altruism, all meld together to provide nurturance.

  Jim Nollman

  Humility, Garden, Compassion

  Jim Nollman (2005). “Why We Garden: Cultivating a Sense of Place”, p.104, Sentient Publications

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• Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.

  Alex Tan

  Inspirational, Life, Get Well

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• Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

  Junius

  Honesty, Men, Independence

  Junius (1829). “The posthumous works of Junius: To which is prefixed, an inquiry respecting the author: also, a Sketch of the life of John Horne Tooke”, p.397

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• We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Confidence, Long

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• ...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Feet, Expression

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• The great danger of the media is that it gives us a very perverted view of the world. Because the focus and the repetition of messaging is on the negative, that’s what our minds start believing. This warped and narrow view of what’s not working has a severe influence on your creative potential. It can be crippling.

  Darren Hardy

  Believe, Media, Giving

  FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Jan 21, 2015

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• I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.

  Jeff Melvoin

  Truth, Thinking, Bottles

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• So when you feel this time approaching, and your comfort zones in view. Stop and think about what you're feeling, and see if what you're feeling is true.

  Julie Hebert

  Thinking, Feelings, Comfort

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• If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.

  Norm Phelps

  Animal, Rights, Church

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• Flowers should be viewed when half open, wine should be drunk only to subtle intoxication; there is great fun in this. If you view flowers in full bloom and drink to drunkenness, it becomes a bad experience. Those who are living to the full should think about this.

  Zicheng Hong

  Fun, Flower, Wine

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• The catchall phrase big data means three things. First, it is a bundle of technologies. Second, it is a potential revolution in measurement. And third, it is a point of view, or philosophy, about how decisions will be-and perhaps should be-made in the future

  Steve Lohr

  Philosophy, Mean, Technology

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