Considered Quotes

• General systems theory is the scientific exploration of "wholes" and "wholeness" which, not so long ago, were considered metaphysical notions transcending the boundaries of science. Hierarchic structure, stability, teleology, differentiation, approach to and maintenance of steady states, goal-directedness — these are a few of such general system properties.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Science
  • Goal
  • Theory

• It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell upon them. —playwright Lillian Hellman

  

  Carol Tavris
  • Remember
  • America
  • Mistakes

• My Jiu-Jitsu is very MMA focused. I was not the best striker, and when I considered becoming a MMA fighter I just focused to improve my BJJ.

  

  Eddie Bravo
  • Focused
  • Improve
  • MMA

• The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course cannot be considered The Path.

  

  Confucius
  • Path
  • Consciousness
  • Course

• We weren't your mainstream '50s family. Both my parents had wonderful, eccentric, artistic friends who treated us as friends as well. How your mind worked was considered important.

  

  Melissa Mathison
  • Important
  • Parents
  • Treated

• I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Christianity
  • Considered
  • Republicanism

• Education is one of the subjects which most essentially require to be considered by various minds, and from a variety of points of view. For, of all many-sided subjects, it is the one which has the greatest number of sides.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Education
  • Considered
  • Points of View

• Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in your heart is considered normal and conservative.

  

  Dean Ornish
  • Eating
  • Conservative
  • Exercising

• I don’t think a crow has ever even considered the categorical imperative.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Crow
  • Imperative
  • Categorical

• I've always considered myself a crunch-time player. I just love having the ball in my hands. Everyone in the arena knows the ball is supposed to be in your hands and you still make it. It's the odds. I love the odds.

  

  Reggie Miller
  • Love
  • Player
  • Hands

• In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which cost the lives of thousands of Jews, the Jewish people considered the post-war period as a messianic era. Israel, during those years, 1919-1920, rejoiced in Eastern and Southern Europe, in Northern and Southern Africa, and above all in America.

  

  Denis Fahey
  • America
  • Europe
  • Poland

• Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear, or the mind, and makes us want to perceive it again.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • Eye
  • Radiance
  • Catches

• Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.

  

  David Cooperrider
  • Writing
  • Exception
  • Utopian

• If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Course
  • Considered
  • Human Affairs

• When I finished the Boston race in 1967, there were two things I wanted to do. I wanted to become a better athlete because my first marathon was 4:20. In those days, that was considered a jogging time and I knew people were going to tease me. But I was more fascinated with what women could do if they only had the chance.

  

  Kathrine Switzer
  • Chance
  • Wanted
  • Fascinated

• The Spartans would want it known how they had died. Of all things, they considered the manner of death mattered as much as the manner of life.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Life
  • Death
  • Mattered

• My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder," which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Policeman
  • Translated
  • Witchfinder

• I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.

  

  Ned Kelly
  • Story
  • Heard
  • Considered

• Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Birth
  • Human being
  • Considered

• Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Challenges
  • Findings
  • Considered

• I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.

  

  Chad Hugo N.E.R.D.
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Explore

• That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture!

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Painting
  • False
  • Sculpture

• The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Body

• The Javanese Anthropopithecus, which in its skull is more human than any other known anthropoid ape, already had an upright, erect posture, which has always been considered to be the exclusive privilege of humans.

  

  Eugene Dubois
  • Humans
  • Privilege
  • Upright

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