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  • I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

    Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.67, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.

    Progress   Littles   Tiny  
    "Dinosaur in a Haystack". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Can We Complete Darwin's Revolution?" (p. 327), 1995.
  • Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

    Liars   Firsts   Resolve  
    Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.35, University of Chicago Press
  • People shouldn't notice what you're wearing before they notice you. You want people to register you first. 'Oh, what a nice jacket' should be an afterthought if you're doing it right.

    Nice   People   Want  
  • I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect. As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks.

  • Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.

    World   Serious   Economy  
  • You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.

    Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org
  • I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.

    "Dinosaur in a Haystack". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Can We Complete Darwin's Revolution?", p. 327, 1995.
  • The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

    Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, Pocket Books
  • For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

    Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.53, Litres
  • Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

    Joy   Purpose   May  
  • At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development.

  • Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.

  • Indigenous programs and policy will come within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet because Indigenous policy and programs should not be an add - on, they should not be an afterthought, but they should be at the heart of a good Australian Government.

    Heart   Government   Add  
    Source: www.sbs.com.au
  • Since we're keeping it primal, you smell good," he observed. "It's called a shower...," I began automatically, then trailed off. My memory snagged, taken aback by a compelling and forceful sense of undue familiarity. "Soap, shampoo, hot water," I added, almost as an afterthought. "Naked. I know the drill," Jev said, something unreadeble passing over his eyes.

    Memories   Taken   Eye  
    Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.186, Simon and Schuster
  • Every thought is an afterthought.

    Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

  • I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.

    Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org
  • I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.

    Commitment   Roles   May  
  • The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.

    Winning   Nfl   Champion  
    Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.48, Penguin
  • An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.

    John Stott (2012). “The Living Church”, p.15, SPCK
  • I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

    Writing   Stranger   Dear  
  • I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called Afterthought, and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.

    Girl   Fun   Writing  
    "Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1, EARTHSEED and NBC’s AFTERTHOUGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2011.
  • Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience what in French is called esprit de l'escalier or wit of the staircase: a great thought which unfortunately is an afterthought, like a clever reply that would have stunned all the other dinner guests - if only you had thought of it before walking down the stairs after the party is over.

    Running   Clever   Party  
  • I don't know why, but there's a certain element of panic in writing lyrics that I'm not sure I enjoy. I don't write lyrics first, ever. I've never done that. So, in a sense, the lyrics are a bit of an afterthought - it's music first.

    Writing   Elements   Done  
    The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. January 2013.
  • I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name

    Goodbye   Doors   Names  
  • Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

  • I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought.

    "Dinosaur in a Haystack". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Can We Complete Darwin's Revolution?" (p. 327), 1995.
  • I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet.

    Sports   Dream   Home  
    Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries
  • Here's why most campaigns get data wrong. They treat it as an afterthought and they treat it as sort of a logistic.

    Data   Campaigns   Treats  
    Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.
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