Etienne Wenger Quotes

Indeed, what says more: the few lines of a tightly written poem or a volume of analytical comments on it? The communicative ability of artifacts depends on how the work of negotiating meaning is distributed between reification and participation.

Etienne Wenger

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• I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

  

  Warren Moon
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Know

• Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Government
  • Phenomenon

• Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form I love deeply, and to watch it be reinvented in such a genius, gifted way and executed by such a brilliant company of human beings, I was overwhelmed with not just appreciation for the piece of work itself but for the possibility.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Love
  • Appreciation

• The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Experiences

• I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Great
  • Drawing
  • Feet

• Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Home
  • Childhood
  • Will

• People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Problems
  • More

• Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Men
  • Women
  • Weakness

• [Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Wish

• I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Honesty
  • Ambitious
  • Diapers

• The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

  

  Lisa See
  • Relationship
  • Teacher
  • Student

• I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

  

  Anne Baxter
  • Good
  • Failure
  • Motivational

• The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Art
  • Death
  • Kiss

• Stress is the result of not listening to your heart. If you ignore it for too long, and surrender your power to someone else, your chest will explode with panic. I take plenty of time for me.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Time
  • Long
  • Heart

• If there is anything worth serving, it's this love. If there is anything worth being, it's this love. If there is anything worth talking about it's this love. If there is anything of real value it's this love.

  

  Kenny Johnson
  • Real
  • Love
  • Value

• I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Fear
  • Explanations
  • Explanatory

• We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

  

  will.i.am
  • Writing
  • Technology
  • Communicate

• They put over 100 million gates/transistors on a tiny piece of silicon. On that piece of silicon there are more lines than there are on a roadmap of London - and they work. There are very very few errors in a microprocessor.

  

  Alan Cox
  • Work
  • Gates
  • Microprocessor

• Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Air

• I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Country
  • Care
  • Risk

• There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Language
  • Ability
  • Medicine

• Indeed, what says more: the few lines of a tightly written poem or a volume of analytical comments on it? The communicative ability of artifacts depends on how the work of negotiating meaning is distributed between reification and participation.

  

  Etienne Wenger
  • Ability
  • Poem
  • Participation