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Quotes About Revealing

But now and then there appears a novel which opens up a new world not by revealing what is strange, but by revealing what is familiar.
~ George Orwell
La maladie nous révèle des fonctions normales au moment précis où elle nous en interdit l'exercice.
~ Georges Canguilhem
presse-papiers, entrouvrant
~ Georges Simenon
Have you limitations, my lord? asked Sir Anthony. My lord looked at him seriously. I do not know, he said, with a revealing simplicity. I have never yet discovered them.
~ Georgette Heyer
Startups often want to control the timing of their financing announcement and prefer not to reveal amounts raised for competitive reasons. If more of the Form D information was confidential rather than public, compliance rates would jump dramatically.
~ Naval Ravikant
In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.'
~ Katharine Graham
why must people of that class always reveal so much of themselves? A few more minutes and she would have shown us her varicose veins.
~ Sarah Waters
I wanted to tell him more. I had the fleeting desire to tell him a lot more, but old habits and the fear of revealing too much made the words congeal in my throat.
~ Scot Gardner
To understand who people really are, start a fire. When everything is going fine, you see only the safest parts of people's character. It's only when something is burning that you find out who people really are.
~ Scott Berkun
To understand who people really are, start a fire. When everything is going fine, you see only the safest parts of people's character. It's only when something is burning that you find out who people really are. Of course, it's wrong to set a fire on purpose, but if you have a small fire already burning, let it burn and see who, if anyone, complains, runs away, or comes to help.
~ Scott Berkun
the passengers slid out as if from a torn package.
~ Markus Zusak
The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatuses of technology. The actual threat has already afflicted man in its essence. The rule of enframing threatens humanity with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth.
~ Martin Heidegger
Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
~ Martin Heidegger
If a ????? as ????????? is to be true, its Being-true is ????????? in the manner of ????????????—of taking entities out of their hiddenness and letting them be seen in their unhiddenness (their uncoveredness).
~ Martin Heidegger
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing […], i.e., of truth.
~ Martin Heidegger
We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.
~ Arthur Miller
Do mesmo modo como nosso corpo é coberto por roupas, nosso espírito é coberto por mentiras. Nosso discurso, nossa acção, todo o nosso ser é mentiroso: e somente olhando através desse invólucro é possível, vez por outra, descobrir os nossos sentimentos, assim como através das roupas se descobre a forma do corpo.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show.
~ Stephen King
To love is to undress our names.
~ Octavio Paz
Schellenberg had the habit of calling people he didn't like whores, and this term suited him well - and when I think about it, it's true that the insults people prefer, the ones that come most spontaneously to their lips, often in the end reveal their own hidden faults, since they naturally hate what they most resemble.
~ Jonathan Littell
In this subsection I offer an explanation for the puzzle by pointing out that free revealing is often the best practical option available to user innovators. Harhoff, Henkel, and von Hippel (2003) found that it is in practice very difficult for most innovators to protect their innovations from direct or approximate imitation. This means that the practical choice is typically not the one posited by the private investment model: should innovators voluntarily freely reveal
~ Eric von Hippel
The empirical finding that users often freely reveal their innovations has been a major surprise to innovation researchers.
~ Eric von Hippel
In a craven and hierarchical organization, the only thing more dangerous in revealing your own ignorance, is to draw attention to the stupidity of the boss.
~ Ben Macintyre
In a craven and hierarchical organization, the only thing more dangerous than revealing your own ignorance is to draw attention to the stupidity of the boss.
~ Ben Macintyre