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  • ...what's always exciting is when you hear something amazing when you least expected it. Every now and then I'll hear something for the first time that forces me to re-examine my frames of reference, and re-consider musical parameters in general, and that's wonderful . And what's even more wonderful in a way, is when you hear something that you know, and already think you have an opinion about, and then suddenly discover that it isn't what you thought it was, but something quite different, which makes it just as surprising as if you'd never heard it before. That's REALLY great!

  • Explore an idea until you've exhausted it, really go to all the different parameters of it.

    Source: blankonblank.org
  • Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana.

  • I think when you can be supremely self-indulgent sometimes it's easy to get up one's own asshole. I need parameters. I need discipline.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

    Pain   Hate   Good Things  
    Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.265, Pan Macmillan
  • Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordination, and better everything else. This is why, all other things being equal, the stronger athlete is the better athlete.

    Mean   Athlete   Athletic  
    "CrossFit: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" by Mark Rippetoe, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2013.
  • There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".

    Games   Play   Skills  
    "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 119), 1991.
  • …Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.

    Mean   Usual   Normalcy  
    Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult
  • With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

    Elephants   Four   Fit  
    Attributed to John von Neumann by Enrico Fermi in "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" by Freeman Dyson in "Nature", Issue 427 (p. 297), www.nature.com. January 22, 2004.
  • Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.

  • Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

  • Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

    Interview with David Duncan, www.physics.emory.edu.
  • With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

    Thinking   Age   Degrees  
    "David Byrne: 'It feels like the end of history in pop music'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.
  • But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isn’t free at all. So screw that.

    Mark Steyn (2014). “The Undocumented Mark Steyn”, p.370, Regnery Publishing
  • Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.

  • My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness

  • Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

  • At the first meeting of the newly constituted Warren Commission, [former CIA Director] Allen Dulles handed out copies of a book to help define the ideological parameters he proposed for the Commission's forthcoming work. American assassinations were different from European ones, he told the Commission. European assassinations were the work of conspiracies, whereas American assassins acted alone.

    "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK". Book by Peter Dale Scott, June 22, 1996.
  • When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.

    Writing   Next Day   Use  
  • A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

  • Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

  • I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.

    Team   Thinking   Years  
  • All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

    Song   Play   Appreciate  
    "The Multi-Instrumentalist Returns: A Conversation With Andrew Bird". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.
  • Pot is great for the abstract, for when you don't have to be regimented and for when you don't need parameters. When you're creating a song, there should never be any parameters, so being high is okay because your mind can wander all over the place.

    Song   Creating   Mind  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this world.

  • We have to see that all regions of India, particularly the east and west, are brought on par in development parameters.

    East   Development   West  
    Source: www.deccanchronicle.com
  • I love the supernatural in storytelling. The Twilight Zone was a huge influence on me, in terms of writing and storytelling, where you're not restricted to the parameters of reality to tell your tale.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • The issue of who gets to define the future, own the nation's wealth, shape the parameters of the social state, control the globe's resources, and create a formative culture for producing engaged and socially responsible citizens is no longer a rhetorical issue, but offers up new categories for defining how matters of representations, education, economic justice, and politics are to be defined and fought over. At stake here is the need for both a language of critique and possibility.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

    Honesty   Two   Elegance  
  • Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in realizing one’s being and in achieving one’s own perfection within the fixed parameters that one’s individual nature and the group to which one belonged clearly defined. Economic activity, work, and profit were justified only in the measure in which they were necessary for sustenance and to ensure the dignity of an existence conformed to one’s own estate, without the lower instinct of self-interest or profit coming first.

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