Rob > Rob's Quotes

“Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together.”
― David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

“Once you've found some joy, you never want to be without it.”
― Alec Baldwin, Nevertheless

“...alcohol drowns our dreams, silences our beliefs, and relieves us of our responsibilities...”
― Alec Baldwin, Nevertheless

“there was nothing to be ashamed of in doing jobs simply to make a living, so long as those jobs fueled other creative efforts”
― Alec Baldwin, Nevertheless

“Once you abandon your instincts and begin polling people people about your choices, once you attempt to reshape yourself into some you are not, it affects nearly every decision you make”
― Alec Baldwin, Nevertheless

“We are an ark.......surrounded by a rising flood of discord”
― Robert Harris, Conclave

“We do not need a church that will move with the world, we need a church that will move the world!”
― Robert Harris, Conclave

“No one who ever follows their conscience ever does wrong. The consequences may not turn out as we intended; it may prove that we made a mistake. But that is not the same as being wrong.”
― Robert Harris, Conclave

“The only true voyage of discovery (is) to behold the universe through the eyes of another - Marcel Proust”
― Beau Lotto, Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

“if you attack a problem with the wrong assumption, there is nowhere to go but deeper into that assumption”
― Beau Lotto, Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

“Our perceptions are an ongoing, ever-growing. ever-changing story, and our brain allows us to be not just passive listeners to that story, but also the storytellers as well”
― Beau Lotto, Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

“Development never truly ends, as our brains evolved to evolve...we are adapted to adapt, to continually redefine normality, transforming ones space of possibility with new assumptions according to the continual process of trial and error”
― Beau Lotto, Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

“Are we products of nature or nurture? It's the wrong question. It's not one or the other. Nor is it a combination of both. It's their constant interaction.”
― Beau Lotto, Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

“For chess grand masters, the process of thinking during a match can "cost" up to 7000 calories a day”
― Beau Lotto, Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

“Big Data:

by itself doesn't yield insights...information doesn't serve us...without knowing why....unless something transformative is brought to these data sets (to create) understanding

Gathering data is easy, understanding why is hard.”
― Beau Lotto, Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

“Information is agnostic. Meaning isn't. The meaning you make with this knowledge is up to you.”
― Beau Lotto, Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

“What mattered was not veracity, but impact....the triumph of the visceral over the rational, the deceptively simple over the honestly complex.”
― Matthew d'Ancona, Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

“The point is simply to keep the argument going, to ensure that it never reaches a conclusion (which leads to confusion, fatigue and collusion)”
― Matthew d'Ancona, Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

“All that matters is stories feel true, they resonate....the point is not to determine the truth by a process of rational evaluation, assessment and conclusion. You choose your own reality, as if from a buffet.”
― Matthew d'Ancona, Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

“the modern political warrior seeks to weaponise fake news so that it becomes.....a suicide bomb at the heart of our information system”
― Matthew d'Ancona, Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

“it is a common error to confuse data with truth: the former informs the latter, but they are not the same thing”
― Matthew d'Ancona, Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

“To defeat your adversary and bury him is one thing. To dress him in a jester's costume and have him perform for you is another, more crushing blow. He survives to give witness ot his own powerlessness”
― Matthew d'Ancona, Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

“When the things you can buy online matter more to you than the things you can do in your neighbourhood; when you communicate with social media friends you never meet more than your real friends; when your notion of public space is confined to the screen in your hand: all this removes the sinew of citizenship”
― Matthew d'Ancona, Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

“What's a handshake after all, except a socially acceptable way to make sure the other guy doesn't have a knife behind his back”
― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

“The things Sarah called problems were wholly elective eg no first class seats, a leaking sailboat”
― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

“Just because two things happen in sequence, doesn't mean there's a casual relationship”
― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Rather than going into all of this thinking "I can be anything I want to be" the approach....is "I don't know yet what I can become".”
― Michael Puett

“The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let’s not try to be witty, but on the other hand, let’s not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we’ve seen without changing one word. When that’s done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That’s work enough for a lifetime. ”
― Celine