Norman Macbeth Quotes

The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.

Norman Macbeth

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• To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.

  

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• I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.

  

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• That would be a confidence vote by definition, ... I can tell you where we're going to stand on that one: firmly opposed, as will the vast majority of Canadians.

  

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• I'd sell my grandmother for a bit of definition.

  

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• I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.

  

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• My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

  

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• I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

  

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• The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

  

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• I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can model, maybe in a computer, the processes that generate things like thoughts and feelings, and two, we can understand how to cure brain disorders, like Alzheimer's and epilepsy. Those are my two driving goals. One is more human-condition oriented, and one more clinical.

  

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• I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

  

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• If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

  

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• Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.

  

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• Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

  

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• It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.

  

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• We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

  

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• All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.

  

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• Who said nights were for sleep?

  

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• The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man of hatred is suffering, to be separated from a beloved one is suffering, to be vainly struggling to satisfy one's needs is suffering. In fact, life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with suffering.

  

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• We sit in silence, drinking hot chocolate and contemplating the act that death is a monstrous affront to the living and shouldn't be allowed.

  

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• The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.

  

  Norman Macbeth
  • Definition
  • Meaningless
  • Tautology