#lana

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. ↗

— Pat Riley

#complacency #constantly #defeat #explain #explanations

The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in. ↗

— Eric Roberts

#built #characters #comes #describing #ease

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation. ↗

— Will Rogers

#explanation #me #one-third #practice #two-thirds

I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. Curiously, it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model of global warming offers a watertight explanation. ↗

— Javier Cuadros

#colleagues #confirms #consensus #curiously #decreasing

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#correct #establishment #explanation #former #hypothesis

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#explanation #justification #reason

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#explanation #failure #matters #needs #success

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#apostles #beings #claimed #explanation #havoc

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. ↗

— Richard Russo

#bring #child #different #does #dramatic

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms. ↗

— Angelus Silesius

#blooms #explanation #rose #she #without