Iain McGilchrist Quotes
To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.Iain McGilchrist
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If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
Viktor Orban -
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Sam Harris -
I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
Nancy Pickard -
New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
Wallace Stevens -
I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
Samina Baig
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
Larry Wilmore -
I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
L. J. Smith -
Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
Jacki Weaver -
A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
Dan Rather -
We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
Hamza Yusuf
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
Edmund Spenser -
'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
Larenz Tate -
My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
Vano Merabishvili -
I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
Ralph Lauren -
I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
Zygmunt Bauman -
I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
Candice Olson
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
Rachel Roy -
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
Flannery O'Connor -
Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
Umberto Eco -
Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
Ford Frick -
I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.
Oscar Pistorius -
To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
Iain McGilchrist