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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future. | Alan Dundes | [
"future"
] |
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research. | Alan Dundes | [
"graduation"
] |
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. | Alan Greenspan | [
"finance"
] |
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well. | Alan Greenspan | [
"success"
] |
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University. | Alan Greenspan | [
"business",
"music"
] |
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. | Alan Greenspan | [
"business"
] |
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. | Alan Greenspan | [
"history"
] |
I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive. | Alan Greenspan | [
"government",
"society"
] |
Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse. | Alan Greenspan | [
"finance"
] |
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills. | Alan Greenspan | [
"communication",
"education"
] |
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. | Alan Greenspan | [
"freedom"
] |
Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here. | Alan Greenspan | [
"money"
] |
We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real. | Alan Greenspan | [
"trust"
] |
It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. | Alan Hovhaness | [
"sympathy"
] |
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. | Alan Hovhaness | [
"nature"
] |
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. | Alan King | [
"marriage",
"nature"
] |
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens? | Alan King | [
"money"
] |
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. | Alan King | [
"marriage"
] |
Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up. | Alan Ladd | [
"teen"
] |
I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me. | Alan Ladd | [
"respect"
] |
It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry. | Alan Ladd | [
"food",
"funny"
] |
I'm working myself to death. | Alan Ladd | [
"death",
"work"
] |
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. | Alan Paton | [
"society"
] |
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. | Alan Paton | [
"wisdom"
] |
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. | Alan Perlis | [
"attitude"
] |
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. | Alan Perlis | [
"technology"
] |
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. | Alan Perlis | [
"science"
] |
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it. | Alan Perlis | [
"technology"
] |
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. | Alan Perlis | [
"god",
"intelligence",
"science"
] |
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. | Alan Perlis | [
"computers"
] |
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'. | Alan Perlis | [
"computers"
] |
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. | Alan Perlis | [
"education",
"learning"
] |
I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student. | Alan Shepard | [
"science"
] |
I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds. | Alan Shepard | [
"success"
] |
Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars. | Alan Shepard | [
"morning"
] |
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. | Alan Shepard | [
"government"
] |
The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that. | Alan Shepard | [
"attitude"
] |
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. | Alan Shepard | [
"history"
] |
We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on. | Alan Shepard | [
"design"
] |
I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me. | Alan Shepard | [
"teacher"
] |
I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. | Alan Shepard | [
"history"
] |
Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess. | Alan Shepard | [
"sports"
] |
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. | Alan Turing | [
"religion",
"science"
] |
That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there. | Alan Vega | [
"sad"
] |
We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be! | Alan Vega | [
"famous"
] |
But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know? | Alan Vega | [
"amazing"
] |
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. | Alan Watts | [
"history"
] |
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. | Alan Watts | [
"attitude",
"faith",
"truth"
] |
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. | Alan Watts | [
"experience",
"god"
] |
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. | Alan Watts | [
"great",
"imagination",
"money"
] |
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. | Alan Watts | [
"great"
] |
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. | Alan Watts | [
"future"
] |
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. | Alan Watts | [
"change"
] |
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. | Alan Watts | [
"technology"
] |
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. | Alan Watts | [
"relationship"
] |
Faith is a state of openness or trust. | Alan Watts | [
"faith",
"trust"
] |
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. | Alan Watts | [
"fear",
"future",
"love",
"work"
] |
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. | Alan Watts | [
"attitude",
"faith"
] |
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. | Alan Watts | [
"faith",
"trust"
] |
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. | Alan Watts | [
"god",
"inspirational"
] |
Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it. | Alan Watts | [
"religion"
] |
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. | Alan Watts | [
"god"
] |
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. | Alan Watts | [
"god"
] |
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. | Alan Watts | [
"god"
] |
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. | Alan Watts | [
"future"
] |
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. | Alan Watts | [
"god"
] |
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. | Alan Watts | [
"faith",
"god",
"nature",
"religion"
] |
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. | Alan Watts | [
"power"
] |
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. | Alan Watts | [
"god"
] |
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. | Alban Berg | [
"knowledge"
] |
I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy. | Alban Berg | [
"friendship"
] |
The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk. | Alben W. Barkley | [
"best"
] |
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. | Albert Bandura | [
"experience"
] |
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives. | Albert Bandura | [
"faith",
"power"
] |
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions. | Albert Bushnell Hart | [
"legal"
] |
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. | Albert Camus | [
"finance",
"money"
] |
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. | Albert Camus | [
"war"
] |
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. | Albert Camus | [
"art",
"great",
"work"
] |
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. | Albert Camus | [
"alone",
"learning"
] |
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. | Albert Camus | [
"happiness",
"life"
] |
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. | Albert Camus | [
"love"
] |
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. | Albert Camus | [
"love"
] |
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. | Albert Camus | [
"life"
] |
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. | Albert Camus | [
"power"
] |
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. | Albert Camus | [
"good",
"society"
] |
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. | Albert Camus | [
"hope"
] |
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. | Albert Camus | [
"death"
] |
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves. | Albert Camus | [
"war"
] |
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. | Albert Camus | [
"fear",
"respect"
] |
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. | Albert Camus | [
"happiness"
] |
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. | Albert Camus | [
"motivational"
] |
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. | Albert Camus | [
"nature"
] |
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. | Albert Camus | [
"nature"
] |
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. | Albert Camus | [
"faith",
"time"
] |
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible. | Albert Camus | [
"god"
] |
The society based on production is only productive, not creative. | Albert Camus | [
"society"
] |
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. | Albert Camus | [
"beauty",
"time"
] |
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. | Albert Camus | [
"life"
] |
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. | Albert Camus | [
"experience",
"love"
] |
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. | Albert Camus | [
"nature"
] |