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Quotes About Signal

Anger at queries about our beliefs is the body's warning signal: here lies unexamined and probably dangerous doctrinal baggage.
~ Carl Sagan
Ever been in love?' The question was direct, matter-of-fact. 'Halfway, half a dozen times. But'—she glanced at the nearest telescope—there was always so much noise, the signal was hard to find.
~ Carl Sagan
Beep glagga beep wonk beep beep.
~ Carl Sagan
Some warnings are unilateral.
~ Karen Marie Moning
One way to charm is with the smile, which Eckman calls the most important signal of intent. He adds that it is also "the typical disguise used to mask the emotions.
~ Gavin de Becker
Chaos is not noise, it's signal; disorder is not a mistake, it's a design element. If we view these periods as aberrations, we risk their becoming missed opportunities. If we view them as openings, we just might open up to them. Transitions are not going away; the key to benefiting from them is to not turn away. Don't shield your eyes when the scary parts start; that's when the heroes are made.
~ Bruce Feiler
Signal transduction science recognizes that the fate and behavior of an organism is directly linked to its perception of the environment.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
The trouble with England, he thinks, is that it's so poor in gesture. We shall have to develop a hand signal for 'Back off, our prince is fucking this man's daughter.' He is surprised that the Italians have not done it. Though perhaps they have, and he just never caught on.
~ Hilary Mantel
He isn't so much flirting," Cerise murmured. "Either he doesn't like me or he doesn't know how." "Of course he likes you. You're lovely. He probably just doesn't get it. Some men have to be hit over the head with it. Her aunt rolled her eyes. "I thought I'd have to draw your uncle Jean a giant sign. That or kidnap him and have my evil way with him, until he got the message.
~ Ilona Andrews
In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.
~ John Walters
Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?
~ Amy Chua
Imgur is a data-driven company, and our community is our most important signal. But you can't perfectly plot humans neatly into a chart. It takes someone with instincts and empathy to truly understand the community and represent them in all of the company decisions.
~ Alan Schaaf
There are various ideas about the mechanism of synchronization, but the best guess is that it has something to do with pheromones: unidentified, odorless chemicals that somehow convey a synchronizing signal.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
In mathematical modeling, as in all of science, we always have to make choices about what to stress and what to ignore. The art of abstraction lies in knowing what is essential and what is minutia, what is signal and what is noise, what is trend and what is wiggle. It's an art because such choices always involve an element of danger; they come close to wishful thinking and intellectual dishonesty.
~ Steven Strogatz
You convinced them, I tell her. No, you did or I'd never have gotten your signal. They wanted to be convinced.
~ Carrie Vaughn
I like to think I'm the canary down the mine for people.
~ Daisy May Cooper
We live lives that are waveforms constantly changing with time, now positive, now negative. Only at moments of great serenity is it possible to find the pure, the informationless state of signal zero.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Only at moments of great serenity is it possible to find the pure, the informationless state of signal zero.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Geez, what do I need to do, use semaphore? I told you I was unclaimed.
~ Katie MacAlister
Jung believed that there was a natural and proper path of development for each individual; and that neurosis might actually be a valuable signal which indicated when, through intellectual arrogance, a false set of values or an evasion of responsibilities, a person was straying too far from his own true path.
~ C.G. Jung
four stoplights
~ C.J. Box
The next signal I explain to Kelly is one I call loan-sharking: "He wanted to be allowed to help you because that would place you in his debt, and the fact that you owe a person something makes it hard to ask him to leave you alone.
~ Gavin de Becker
True fear is a gift that signals us in the presence of danger; thus, it will be based upon something you perceive in your environment or your circumstance. Unwarranted fear or worry will always be based upon something in your imagination or your memory.
~ Gavin de Becker
Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.
~ Gen Alfred Gray, USMC