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Quotes About Coherence

Too many architects are just trying to make all of their buildings look like a brand, and that may be good for business, but that is terrible for the cities because they lose character. If I go to Paris, I go to see the beauty of Paris and the coherence of Paris.
~ Cesar Pelli
Details, when they are successful, are not mere decoration. They do not distract or entertain. They lead to an understanding of the whole of which they are an inherent part.
~ Peter Zumthor
Bir taraf?n hatas? gerçe?i 'hususi ve ferdi'ye ba?lamamas?, öteki taraf?n hatas? 'umumi ve mü?terek'e ba?lamas?d?r. Bir ?ey var olabilmek için hususi ve umumi vas?flara ayn? derecede muhtaç oldu?una göre, gerçe?i bunlardan yaln?z birine ba?lamak mümkün de?ildir.
~ Peyami Safa
Zimbardo and Boyd Time perspective is the often nonconscious personal attitude that each of us holds toward time and the process whereby the continual flow of existence is bundled into time categories that help to give order, coherence, and meaning to our lives.
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
Time perspective is the often nonconscious personal attitude that each of us holds toward time and the process whereby the continual flow of existence is bundled into time categories that help to give order, coherence, and meaning to our lives.
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
~ Philip Tetlock
Natural as such thinking may be, it is problematic. Lay out the tangled chain of reasoning in a straight line and you see this: "The probability that I would meet the love of my life was tiny. But it happened. So it was meant to be. Therefore the probability that it would happen was 100%." This is beyond dubious. It's incoherent. Logic and psycho-logic are in tension.
~ Philip Tetlock
but I have always suspected that one could substitute the Minuet of Haydn's 98th symphony for the Minuet in Haydn's 99th symphony without sensing a serious lack of coherence in either work.
~ Aaron Copland
There is nothing worse than a long, rambling text from a collaborator who uses a whole page to say what can be written in a few lines."
~ Adam Scaife
The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
~ Adam Smith
It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucinations never pause long enough to make sense. In terms of coherence, it makes your average David Lynch movie look like 'Burn Notice.'
~ Rob Sheffield
We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.
~ Christopher Alexander
To make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.
~ Plotinus
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
You still cling to romantic notions about writing, that you'll be able to figure things out, that you will understand life, as if life is understandable, as if art is understandable. When has writing explained anything to you? Writing does not force coherence onto a discordant narrative.
~ Rabih Alameddine
And the blabbing, the telling, was the messiest thing of all: getting control of language was getting control of anger and shame, and it was hard, hard to turn it around, to take the mess of experience and make something coherent out of it. Only then did you know that you'd got the better of the things that had happened to you: when you controlled the story rather than it controlling you.
~ Rachel Cusk
If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another.
~ Bruce Lipton
Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.
~ Edwin Lutyens
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
~ Ida Pauline Rolf
I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts.
~ Jeff Zucker
Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.
~ Jane Siberry
If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge. - Mitchell translation
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
En síntesis, los indicios de la verdad se revelan mediante todos los sentidos. Dios es el guardián de la razón y nos invita a verificar la consistencia de la Biblia con la realidad y a comprobar la coherencia de sus aseveraciones. Además, nuestra experiencia diaria confirma esas verdades en la realidad concreta. Nuestro mayor privilegio es conocer a Dios y vivir conforme a la verdad. Esto suscita una coherencia interna en nosotros.
~ Ravi Zacharias