Ernst von Glasersfeld Quotes
What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.
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I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
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I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.
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You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.
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I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
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A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
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When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.
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Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.
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It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.
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It was like 'Risky Business' for 10 years. My parents were out of town, they left me a bunch of money, the car, and the house, and I didn't know when they were coming home.
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To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
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Surround yourself with people that are going to support you on your journey, and get rid of the ones that don't.
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Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.
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Despite the best intentions, companies often become culturally dysfunctional. This occurs when leadership has a perception about the culture that conflicts with reality, or leadership behaves differently than what might be written down.
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What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.
