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Letter "D" » disturbances
«The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.»
Author: Margaret J. Wheatley
| Keywords:
creativity, disturbances, fluctuation, fluctuations, imbalance, imbalances, organizations, primaries, primary, sources
«There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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«Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth.Don?t ever try to stop truth. It?s the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.»
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
(Founder, Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
armor, armor plate, disturbance, disturbances, folded-up, folds, inch, plate
«Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| About:
Change,
Peace,
Sadness
| Keywords:
awareness, constitute, departure, departures, disturbances, followed, interim, occasions, realities, recurrence, recurrences
«There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.»
Author: Saul Bellow
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
afternoon, disturbance, disturbances, heart a, I Tried, spoke, suppress
«One attains peace in whose mind all desires enter without creating any disturbance, as river waters enter the full ocean without creating a disturbance. One who desires material objects is never peaceful.»
«Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.»
«There is, in public affairs, no state so bad, provided it has age and stability on its side, that it is not preferable to change and disturbance.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
disturbance, disturbances, stability, state of affairs
«If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Marriage,
Parents,
Quarrels
| Keywords:
disturbance, disturbances, illness, predisposition, quarrels, severest, sexual
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