quotes about Signals
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?
-- Alan AldaSource : "World Science Festival: Brian Greene and Alan Alda Bring Science to the Masses". Interview with Clare Richardson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 02, 2011.
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A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
-- Anne Lamott -
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
-- Barry Diller -
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"No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you... Declining to hear "no" is a signal that someone is either seeking control or refusing to relinquish it.
-- Gavin de BeckerSource : Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company
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Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.
-- George Steiner -
That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.
-- Gertrude B. Elion -
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
-- Harriet Lerner -
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A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.
-- Jean Vanier -
Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
-- Katherine Anne Porter -
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God loves the noise as much as the signal.
-- Lewis M. BranscombSource : Lewis M. Branscomb (1997). “Confessions of a Technophile”, p.45, Springer Science & Business Media
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
-- Nate SilverSource : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.21, Penguin
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These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information...
-- Paul Simon -
If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.
-- Raymond WilliamsSource : "Reading and Criticism". Book by Raymond Williams, 1950.
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The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels.
-- Richard Hofstadter -
Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.
-- Sandra BartkySource : Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.72, Routledge
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When you smile at people, its a signal to what you are bringing to their life.
-- Sean Stephenson -
Expectations send unconscious signals that people respond to.
-- Tony Robbins -
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The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.
-- William Stafford -
Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth.
-- John KadorSource : John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.3, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. -
Our hunger signal will remain active until we take in an adequate supply of nourishment.
-- Brendan Brazier -
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Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.
-- Daniel Coyle