Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch.
Ray Kurzweil
Related Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... To see life from the perspective of intuition is to have vision. To see life from the perspective of... SWAMI DHYAN GITEN We don't really know what her motivations were. Right now we only know what the results are. Drivers... DENISE TYRRELL Sadly, I have found that even evolution's most staunch believers are afraid to debate, because t... RAY COMFORT It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Our thoughts, imaginations, and actions are what make us into who we are. DEBASISH MRIDHA The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN The Lady shrugged nonchalantly. "You're a hider. Thats what you're thinking. And you're right." JODI LYNN ANDERSON It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear.... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzwe... STEVIE WONDER All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,0... PETER DIAMANDIS The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL We are poor people who were abducted, up to now we don't know where we are. We wish a representative... HASSAN MOHAMED Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't ev... ELLEN DEGENERES We don't know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imagin... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA But what are friends? What is a husband, even, compared with one's Mother? Of her love, one is a... JANE WELSH CARLYLE We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a di... DAVID BELLE When we follow what we love, we begin living according to our most admirable values. When we become ... ANGIE KARAN Sometimes we are scared of our own shadow, and our imaginations get the best of us. JAMES DYE That was the table-setter for our season. Now we just know how good we are and we can take it from t... JOSH REED The people we want in our news prime-time space now are strongly opinionated people who I think, for... JUAN WILLIAMS How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL The good news is that God gave us imaginations because he wanted us to take a tour into our future, ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Men have a harder time in our culture. They are brought up to be linear and logical, and not to deve... JUDITH ORLOFF In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation—tak... ALAIN DE BOTTON Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have... FRANCES WRIGHT While keeping the truth firmly entrenched in mind that our own capacities are limited only by our ow... DR HITESH C SHETH I think this stretch has been really important. Not just for Ray but the team, as well. DANIEL ALFREDSSON When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don’t listen to our intuition, we a... TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Most of us right now are in the process of ... due diligence, ... What do we know about this candida... SAM BROWNBACK We controlled most of the game. It took us a while to settle down. But once we did, we were all righ... JOSE GONZALEZ Originally we were playing most of our games sitting on our heels hoping not to make mistakes. Now t... BILL FISHER For us to believe what we see, feel and touch in time, linear time as we know it, is the only extant... PETER WELLER Intuition is the language of the soul.
When we listen to our intuition we are fed information from o... G. BRIAN BENSON All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part ... ANATOLE FRANCE The mood of the people now is different. The people will laugh now, and that is what the authorities... ALEKSANDR MILINKEVICH How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that pic... STEPHEN R. COVEY The guidelines that now exist are very weak and operate at the margins. They lack monitoring, and, f... DAVID ROTHMAN Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We we... BOB GAUDIO A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON When we scouted, them they didn't shoot like that from the perimeter. She was five-of-seven in the f... BOB GILBERT Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS I guess what's most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experienc... BRIAN JOYCE We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, a... TED WILLIAMS We are putting it all together at the most important time of the year. All of us knew we could hang ... JOE KINNEY In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA What are we so afraid of? Why don't we let 'em tell us we're afraid? What is it they're afraid of?" ... URSULA K. LE GUIN We did what we had to do down the stretch, but those Shine boys are tough. They really make us go. KIP RHOTEN Fear comes from attachments; we only fear what we are afraid to lose! JOHNNY WALKER Most of the teams we played were bigger than us, but we really were missing our fast breaks (during ... DAN SCHMIDT Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. MAURICE MAETERLINCK The reinstatement is only a partial victory, we are now fighting to get our comrades who were arrest... GURUDAS DASGUPTA We call ourselves filmmakers; that's what we do from start to finish, and it really takes advantage ... BILL MCCULLOUGH What you're promoting right now is a 4-mile linear strip of retail. We need to take steps to correct... JAMES BARRETTA Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer... ... Silence doesn't make it... bet... DEYTH BANGER Margo, they're afraid of us. They're afraid of everything.' And then I kept on talking without reall... JAMES PATTERSON By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inh... ANDREA DWORKIN Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER They are asking us for our best and brightest. We have identified people we'll recommend highly. JOSEPH SUINA We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will thin... TAD WILLIAMS I don't like the idea that you have to resign from your post to run (for city council). This rule ke... JOEY HERALD What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give mo... WILLIAM PALEY There was some really good pitching from both sides. I think there were a few jitters from our side,... JOE GIRARDI What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empirici... MEGAN CHANCE I believe we can see the future because some part of us responds to the fact that past, present, and... BRIAN L. WEISS, M.D. We shot the ball well and maintained our composure, for the most part, throughout the game. That's r... JASON HOSENEY Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had... C.S. LEWIS ...it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened i... ORHAN PAMUK The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin ... JIM DOYLE Humans are so much more complex than dogs, with such a broad range of feelings—though there were m... W. BRUCE CAMERON Darkness scares us. We yearn for the comfort of light as it provides shape and form, allowing us to ... EMILY THORNE I think for us it's where we're understanding the game more, but our skill level hasn't caught up to... DAN LIEBLER The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framewor... ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS People come into McDonald's two to three times a month - to extrapolate that to the cause of obe... STEVE EASTERBROOK We feel very good about our future going forward, ... Part of the repositioning we've done over the ... JACK BOVENDER Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ... HENRY CLOUD The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honored for Himself, but that is only part of wh... A. W. TOZER The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what... CARL SAGAN Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster. ANNE SCHAEF This is the worst part, ... We just don't know. We think our apartment was able to survive the storm... MARY REYNOLDS We are too weak to know the purpose of our duty let alone our life. EPHDAN Sleeping on something has a lot of power for a lot of reasons. One is that the linear mind is shut o... JUDITH ORLOFF What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If on... CAMPBELL SCOTT Our best moral stories don’t tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us w... JONATHAN D. FITZGERALD We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm happy about our team performance. We were close to our school record (109.55) and we had nowhere... LAUREN WATTS A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secre... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own ... NENIA CAMPBELL There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age ... MILAN KUNDERA Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated b... MICHAEL JOSEPHSON If we're honest, most of us are doing okay. CRAIG GROESCHEL I told the players that the only people who expect us to win is us. We were down by six at half, but... JOE CONROY To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS...
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MAN RAY Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday. RAY KROC Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. RAY KNIGHT I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now. RAY PRINCE Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting? RAY KROC If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody. RAY FLOYD One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy. MAN RAY First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kind... RANDOLPH RAY There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain... RAY CHARLES Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the histo... RAY BRADBURY It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of u... RAY BRADBURY Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down RAY BRADBURY Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're ... RAY KROC I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true -- hard work pays off. If you want to ... RAY BRADBURY The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every nigh... RAY BRADBURY When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have ba... RAY BRADBURY A good night's sleep, or a ten-minute brawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together... RAY BRADBURY You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to lov... RAY BRADBURY Hell is paved with good intentions. JOHN RAY If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd n... RAY BRADBURY We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The... RAY BRADBURY I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. RAY BRADBURY We're all fools...all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool ... RAY BRADBURY Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a paint... RAY BRADBURY Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. ... RAY BRADBURY The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people r... RAY BRADBURY Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's mor... RAY BRADBURY If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business. RAY KROC We are all cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves ove... RAY BRADBURY