Quotes About Events

Las consideraciones anteriores implican que lo que vivimos como acontecimientos externos son realmente proyecciones del continuo mental. Desde luego que estas proyecciones no son simples y menos conscientes, sino solamente desarrollos psicológicos profundos que permiten, a quien posee la madurez suficiente, la capacidad de atribuirle a los eventos externos un origen interno.

Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.

Reality had a habit of pulling coincidences no one would accept in fiction

Servanthood is revealed in simple, everyday events. But it's complex because servanthood is culturally defined—that is, serving must be sensitive to the cultural landscape while remaining true to the Scripture.

Only once this story has been completed and agreed upon can we say what the relevant events were, or which were the most important. Thus it follows that predicting the importance of events requires predicting not just the events themselves but also the outcome of the social process that makes sense of them.

But rather than producing doubt, the absence of "counterfactual" versions of history tends to have the opposite effect—namely that we tend to perceive what actually happened as having been inevitable.

The result is that we are tempted to infer a cause-and-effect relationship when all we have witnessed is a sequence of events. This is the post-hoc fallacy.

In reality, the events that we label as outcomes are never really endpoints. Instead, they are artificially imposed milestones, just as the ending of a movie is really an artificial end to what in reality would be an ongoing story. And depending on where we choose to impose an "end" to a process, we may infer very different lessons from the outcome.

black swan event like the storming of the Bastille, in other words, the broader you have to draw the boundaries around what you consider to be the event itself.

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

Once you realize that the universe is made up of processes, not things, you are really on a roll, for what makes life truly interesting are the connections between events.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers - if I can go barefoot, that's even better. But for the events I have a stylist, and in two hours we have selected a whole outfit.

In all the events of life, you must recognize the Divine will. Adore and bless it, especially in the things which are the hardest for you.

History is full of surprises.

Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

Life is a continual flow of events, streaming in from the universal stream of consciousness in such a way that it exactly matches our own stream of consciousness.

Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.

Rather than incorporating study into life, I've done the opposite. I've turned life into study. Where events take me? That's what I dive in to learn.

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.