Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 22 “There is nothing more abstract than the visible. ” ― Giorgio Morandi Also quoted as “Nothing is more abstract than reality. ” Triggered by a visit to the “ Metafisica ” exhibition in Milano. “I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective world, as human beings, never really exists as we see and understand it. Matter exists, of course, but has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meaning that we attach to it. We can know only that a cup is a cup, that a tree is a tree.” Source: After The Art Natura morta con intelligenza artificiale

Quote of the Week 20 “ The map is not the territory. ” ―  Alfred Korzybski   Triggered b y the growing gap between how things are described and how they actually are . Well, actually triggered by a road trip through the alps.   See also:  various quotes on perception vs. reality .   Quote of the Week 6/2020 " All models are wrong, but some models are useful. " ― George Box  

Quote of the Week 12 " The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality. " ―   Henri Bergson The search for this quote was triggered by a recent visit to Bergson Kunstkraftwerk  still under construction. Another quote attributed to Bergson for which I could not find the original source: " New ideas, in most cases, are the children of old thoughts. "

Quote of the Week 9 " It's not things that upset us, but our judgment about things. " ―   Epictetus Triggered by the following  tweet : 3 Stoic Oneliners To Beat Anxiety: 1. “It's not things that upset us, it's our judgment about things.” — Epictetus 2. “We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” — Seneca 3. “Make the best use of what is in your power, take the rest as it happens.” — Epictetus — Daily Stoic (@dailystoic) February 24, 2024 See also " Discourses of Epictetus: Book Summary, Key Lessons and Best Quotes ": " It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them. "

Quote of the Week 13 " We suffer more in imagination than in reality. " ― Seneca   Triggered by the use of the quote   "There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality." in a  tweet by Billy Oppenheimer  published on Saturday. In Jaws, you don’t see the shark until 1 hour and 21 minutes into the movie. That wasn’t the plan. According to the script, the mechanical shark, “Bruce,” was supposed to get way more screen time. But Bruce was built for and tested in a North Hollywood freshwater tank. Oops:… pic.twitter.com/FchkwhcVYm — Billy Oppenheimer (@bpoppenheimer) March 25, 2023 [ LinkedIn ]

Quote of the Week 28 "All perceptions are real, at least to those who own them." ― Joe Folkman Related quotes: "In politics, perception is reality." ― Lee Atwater "Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that’s the truth in people’s minds." ― Steve Young "Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that." ― Bill Cowher Triggered by Ron Lichty's use of the quote in many of his  presentations  and the book " Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams " citing Folkman's 1996 book "Turning Feedback into Change!". See also Principle 5 in Folkman's subsequent book " The Power of Feedback ".

Quote of the Week " The only true infinite thing is our ignorance. " ― Carlo Rovelli in " Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity ".