#finite

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#consumption #finite #growth #impossibility #infinite

I can't speak for all women, but I do think that... I mean, me and my girlfriends, we definitely... we're in crisis on a continuous basis...or at least monthly, for sure, I don't know. ↗

— Helen Slater

#continuous #crisis #definitely #girlfriends #i

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards. ↗

— Keith Henson

#attention #family #indefinitely #long-term #making

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely. ↗

— Henry Cantwell Wallace

#cities #forget #hundred #indefinitely #long

But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#applying #earlier #effect #fairness #finite

Then I want to beat Anthony Davis' shot-block record, and I want to win National Player of the Year. I definitely plan to put the work in to accomplish those goals. ↗

— Nerlens Noel

#anthony #beat #davis #definitely #goals

We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area. ↗

— Will Wright

#area #bit #considering #definitely #game

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music. ↗

— James Young

#definitely #early #maybe #much #music

Infinite Jest not only says that being human is hard work; it makes us work hard. It not only suggests we put ourselves in service to something larger than ourselves; it is one of those larger somethings. That's its rhetorical genius, and is how Wallace gets his self-help “to fly at such a high altitude”: Like AA, it is theory and praxis in a single stroke. Or: It is what it says, which may be the purest form of art. ↗

— Garth Risk Hallberg

#infinite-jest #art

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision. ↗

— Jess Walter

#perception #beauty