Thomas Nagel Quotes

Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.

Thomas Nagel

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• Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

  

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• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
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• Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

  

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• Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

  

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• I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

  

  A. S. Byatt
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• The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
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• Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

  

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• Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.

  

  Jack Ramsay
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• I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'

  

  Gabe Kaplan
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• You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.

  

  Jacob deGrom
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• What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

  

  Wendell Phillips
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• I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

  

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• I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.

  

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• What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that.

  

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• I'm playing every day. I still want to win.

  

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• Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.

  

  E. L. James
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• At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.

  

  Yann Martel
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• You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.

  

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• It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior.

  

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• Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

  

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• Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Problem
  • Consciousness
  • Program