Quotes About Coherence

Yet I've noticed the same thing when your band plays — the most amazing social coherence, as if you all shared the same brain. Sure, agreed 'Dope', but you can't call that organization. What do you call it? Jass.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

when a branch of psychology, sometimes called performance psychology, began to systematically explore what separates experts (in many different fields) from everyone else. In the early 1990s, K. Anders Ericsson, a professor at Florida State University, pulled together these strands into a single coherent answer, consistent with the growing research literature, that he gave a punchy name: deliberate practice.

Literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced to work together-and quite frankly, they often don't get along.

But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced to work together—and, quite frankly, they often don't get along.

The endless story that we construct to make sense of our lives must inevitably include the author as actor, object, observer, and setting, and there is only so much coherence you can expect from a story like that.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

F]ashion — i.e., the latest, fashion — in all these things (social forms, apparel, aesthetic judgment etc.) affects only the upper class. Just as soon as the lower classes begin to copy their style, thereby crossing the line of demarcation the upper classes have drawn and destroying the uniformity of their coherence, the upper classes turn away from this style and adopt a new one, which in its turn differentiates them from the masses; and thus the game goes merrily on.

The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems as if the same person writing is the one illustrating and vice versa.

My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.

The nation must achieve a coherent and widely accepted national narrative. Here language is front and center. ... Narratives start with words and are reinforced by symbols. ... Narratives are transported through education.

We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination.

Even the tiniest loose thread in the fabric of your world cannot be tolerated. Either everyting works, or nothing does

Or maybe this is the true order. To bring together the need with the thind that is needed.

One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans – anything except reason.

The trick was to get his reason and his emotions pulling together in double harness, instead of letting them fly off in opposite directions, tearing him apart between them.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense

It doesn't matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you're not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren't connected, aren't working together harmoniously, well, you're just hopping through life on one leg. You may think you're walking, you may think you're running a damn marathon, but you're only on a hop trip. The connections gotta be maintained.

In Tar Baby , the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.

order to these baffling aspects of behavior in the atomic world, and to build from it a coherent theory. In 1925

Creo que hay pocos momentos más gratificantes en la vida que cuando lejanos retazos de información, conversaciones inconexas oídas aquí o allá e intuiciones vagas se alinean de pronto como planetas en el cielo o, mejor aún, como piezas de un calidoscopio que encajan hasta formar un dibujo perfecto.

Evidence supporting James Lovelock's 'Gaia hypothesis' – that the earth functions as a coherent and self-regulating system – appears, at the ecosystem level, to be accumulating.