Quotes About Coherence

My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's made up of a bunch of songs that don't really sound the same, but they all go really well together.

I'm willing to make sense as soon as the rest of the world does.

The controls of a skilled activity generally function below the level of consciousness on which that activity takes place. The code is a hidden persuader. This applies not only to our visceral activities and muscular skills, but also to the skill of perceiving the world around us in a coherent and meaningful manner.

Lacking a coherent view of how people might live successfully all the way to their very end, we have allowed our fates to be controlled by the imperatives of medicine, technology, and strangers. I wrote this book in

Any battle-seasoned general will tell you that, even in a small-scale engagement (as this one was), there always comes a point where coherence breaks down, and the narrative flow, and any real sense of how things are going. These matters are re-created by historians later on. The need to re-create the myth of coherence may be one of the reasons why history exists in the first place.

entanglement is a quantum step up from coherence whereby quantum particles lose their individuality, so that what happens to one affects them all, instantaneously.

leadership on virtue can never come from the major political actors; it will have to come from a movement of people, such as the people of a town who come together and agree to create moral coherence across the many areas of children's lives.

Cuando M. Weber define el poder político como «dominación legítima ante obedientes», rechaza toda posible coherencia entre ética y política; las transforma en un maquiavelismo vulgar.

Por ello, se propone reformular una ética, coherente dentro de la tradición filosófica islámica, que critique a la Modernidad europea, como expresión de la civilización occidental2.

No debemos olvidar que tener madurez no es algo que se pone de relieve en un momento concreto, puntual, sino que se traduce en una conducta prolongada que ofrece unos criterios sólidos de coherencia y equilibrio en las más diversas ocasiones. No

llevar una vida coherente conduce a la felicidad.

Bonhoeffer himself knew that in all of it, he was being utterly obedient to God. For him, that was the cantus firmus that made the dizzying complexities of it all perfectly coherent.

Centroversion is the innate tendency of a whole to create unity within its parts and to synthesize their differences in unified systems.

We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?

Music coheres and resolves according to lots of intrinsic rules—so many that we tend to call it a "language." But natural languages [...] typically have many specific words to point toward specific commonplace ideas. This language doesn't, or at least resists being used quite in that way.

what looks like chaos is often self-organised in an intricate and invisible way.

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

I like rules that make sense, not rules without logic.

Me gustan las reglas que tienen sentido, no las reglas sin lógica

gosto de regras que fazem sentido, não de regras sem lógica.

The sergeant major roared like a bear who'd broken a tooth while gnoshing on somebody's skull. I made out no distinct words but in all the history of the universe sergeants major never have been required to be coherent to be understood.

He was, as soldier and man, all of a piece