Quotes About Events

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

He'd written some of the movement's earliest manifestos ( No More Earthquakes , The Earth is a Harsh Mistress ) and numerous pamphlets, articles and books documenting what he called the counterconspiracy theory of history, which maintained that many otherwise incomprehensible historical events could be explained by identifying the conspiracy theories held by the protagonists.

I want you to know that what we record here today may be the last events witnessed by any inhabitants on our earth. We have a front row seat with a window to view our own destiny. Winston Churchill made a statement during World War Two, but had he been able to look into the future he might have agreed that this, "will be our finest hour.

Jung introduced the idea of synchronicity to strip off the fantasy, magic, and superstition which surround and are provoked by unpredictable, startling, and impressive events that, like these, appear to be connected.

My thoughts are not my self but exactly like the things of the world, alive and dead. Just as I am not damaged through living in a partly chaotic world, so too I am not damaged if I live in my partly chaotic thought world. Thoughts are natural events that you do not possess, and whose meaning you only imperfectly recognize.

what am I to do there? Is it a deception that I can no longer trust my thoughts? Only life is true, and only life leads me into the desert, truly not my thinking, that would like to return to thoughts, to men and events, since it feels uncanny in the desert.

Causality is the way we explain the link between two successive events. Synchronicity designates the parallelism of time and meaning between psychic and psychophysical events, which scientific knowledge so far has been unable to reduce to a common principle.

The dream, we would say, originates in an unknown part of the psyche and prepares the dreamer for the events of the following day.

Thoughts are natural events that you do not possess, and whose meaning you only imperfectly recognize.

Rhine's experiments confront us with the fact that there are events which are related to one another experimentally, and in this case meaningfully, without there being any possibility of proving that this relation is a causal one, since the "transmission" exhibits none of the known properties of energy.

Things never happen the same way twice.

Everybody's life is already planned out for them. It has been that way since the day they were born. Although they may think they can change or control life, it's nothing but a series of events waiting to happen.

If you value new connections & exposure to interesting ideas, he might argue, why not adopt the habit of attending an interesting talk or event every month, & forcing yourself to chat with at least three people while there?

To embrace news media from a mind-set of slowness requires first and foremost that you focus only on the highest-quality sources. Breaking news, for example, is almost always much lower quality than the reporting that's possible once an event has occurred and journalists have had time to process it.

IT WAS CUSTOMARY in the South for outside observers to interpret events in terms of ideology (usually racial ideology) and for local observers to interpret the same events in terms of money (usually graft).

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike. JAMES A. GARFIELD

Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.

Threats betray the speaker by proving that he has failed to influence events in any other way. Most often they represent desperation, not intention.

When dreaded outcomes are actually imminent we don't worry about themwe take action. Seeing lava from the local volcano make its way down the street toward our house does not cause worry it causes running. Also we don't usually choose imminent events as subjects for our worrying and thus emerges an ironic truth: Often the very fact that you are worrying about something means that it isn't likely to happen.

The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.

The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything. -Willem

News is history shot on the wing.

In addition to collecting telemetry from our production services and environments, we must also collect telemetry from our deployment pipeline when important events occur, such as when our automated tests pass or fail and when we perform deployments to any environment. We

The key thing we should care about is not the form, but the outcomes: deployments should be low-risk, push-button events we can perform on demand.