#explanation

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#get #i #satisfied #school #tv

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#energy #explain #explanations #genesis #i

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#employee #explanation #five #new #new skills

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. ↗

— David Deutsch

#because #contain #experimental #explanations #fail

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#life #like #making #time #waste

When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#asks #daughter #different #every #explanations

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#anything #beginning #could #else #explanation

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#explanation #form #get #i #may

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#criminals #explanation #eyes #gangs #gentlemen

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings. We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#day-to-day #escape #explanation #freedom #future