Genius in art consistes in knowing how far we may go too far.
-- Jean Cocteau

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Sunset #NewMexico

The way we see the problem IS the problem.
-- Stephen R. Covey

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When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
-- Abraham Lincoln

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GreatSandDunes #Colorado

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sand #Tracks #Iowa

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
-- Laurie Anderson

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #PitcherPlants #Flowers #Florida

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
-- George Wald (The Origin of Optical Activity)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
-- Abraham Lincoln

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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
-- Abba Eban

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
-- Helen Keller

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Orthodoxy is my doxy, heterodoxy is your doxy.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #MotorMill #Iowa

We are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, doing the unnecessary, for the ungrateful.
-- Anonymous (variation on Konstantin Jirecek quote)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Sunset #NewMexico

A quotation from James Clear

Beware the student of one teacher. A good idea spirals into dogma when it gets applied to everything and stretched beyond the areas where it is useful. Remain open and embrace a lot of teachers.

James Clear (b. 1986) American author, performance coach, motivational speaker
3-2-1 Newsletter (2025-01-30)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/clear-james/77346/

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3-2-1 Newsletter (2025-01-30) - Clear, James | WIST Quotations

Beware the student of one teacher. A good idea spirals into dogma when it gets applied to everything and stretched beyond the areas where it is useful. Remain open and embrace a lot of teachers. See Maslow (1966).

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The paradox is that as we advance into the future the need for change gets greater and greater (to cope with changes in population, pollution, etc. and to make full use of our new technologies) but the possibility of change gets less and less because everything is already committed.
-- Edward deBono

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #RoseFalls #Minnesota

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
-- Isaac Asimov

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Books

I exist as I am, that is enough.
-- Walt Whitman

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

Always assume the best about your audience.
-- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardTufte #Communication #Presentations

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Hammock #KinderhookCreek #NewYork

A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.
-- Charles Darwin (on the existence of God)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sand #Tracks #Iowa

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
-- Joseph Conrad

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.
-- Humpty Dumpty (Lewis Carroll)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.
-- William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Florida

I would much rather be an honorable public servant and known as such than to be the richest man in the world.
-- Harry S. Truman (Diary, April 24, 1954)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Palms #Florida

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
-- Samuel Johnson

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #StPeteBeach #Florida

The condition of an expanding and technologically progressive system of mass-production is universal craving. Advertising is the organized effort to extend and intensify craving...
-- Aldous Huxley (The Perennial Philosophy)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Florida

Intelligent trial and error beats the planning of a sole genius every time.
-- Albert Einstein

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #LakeSantaFe #Florida

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
-- Thomas H. Huxley

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Rainbow #MississippiRiver #Iowa

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
-- Boris Pasternak

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

Science is built up with facts as a house with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
-- Henri Poincare (1908)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Palms #Florida

Adults are just obsolete children.
-- Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

Timeless Words of Wisdom...Desiderata by Max Ehrmann.

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
-- Soren Kierkegaard

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
-- Sinclair Lewis (Main Street (1920))

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #StPeteBeach #Florida

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
-- Robert Heinlein

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Clouds #Iowa

A lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history.
-- Hannah Arendt

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.
-- Roger Ailes (Founder of FOX News)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RogerAiles #Laziness #Television

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida

Patient care is becoming the sales division of the medical-industrial complex.
-- Richard Lehman (@richardlehman1)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

The first indications of the intelligence of a ruler are given by the quality of the men around him. If they are capable and loyal, he should always be taken to be shrewd, because he was able to recognize their ability and retain their loyalty. But if they are mediocre and disloyal, a low estimate of him will never be mistaken, because the most important error he has made is to choose them.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
-- Ray Charles

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #WhiteRimTrail #Canyonlands #Utah

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
-- Malcolm Forbes

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GoblinValley #Utah

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it!
-- Mark Twain

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #Folly #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.
-- Gary Zukav

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GaryZukav #Perception #Reality #Thought

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota

In some ways, programming is like painting. You start with a blank canvas and certain basic raw materials. You use a combination of science, art, and craft to determine what to do with them.
-- Ward Cunningham (The Pragmatic Programmer)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WardCunningham #Programming

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Clouds #Iowa

We Americans want contradictory things from the health-care system; we want unlimited medical care without unlimited spending.... We want limits for society as a whole, but not for any of the individuals in it.... We remain hostage to our own optimism that all things are possible. But choices exist, and, even if we evade them, they will not evade us.
-- Robert J. Samuelson (Newsweek)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertJSamuelson #Choices #Medicine

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GoblinValley #Utah

Power without abuse loses its charm.

#power #usa #military #war #politics #nwo #government #whitehouse #democracy #freedom #liberty #society #trump #quote #wisdom

Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.
-- Hannah Arendt

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HannahArendt #Authoritarianism #Lies #Power #Propaganda #Truth

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

A culture is no better than its woods.
-- W. H. Auden

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WHAuden #Culture #Nature

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #StPeteBeach #Florida

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HowardAiken #GoodIdeas

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida