Zero Dean Quotes

Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s fine. It’s not their journey to make sense of. It’s yours.

If you want more kindness in the world, put some there.

Not everyone with a problem needs you to solve it. Sometimes all a person needs is to feel like they've been heard. Listening without judging can be more effective than injecting your opinions or trying to solve a problem that doesn't have an easy answer.

You don't get over the fear of doing something by not doing it.

Anger and hate dig holes. Love and kindness move mountains. Choose your motivation wisely.

Healthy habits harbor happiness.

Don't let your life goals fall victim to the allure of comfortable routines.

If you treat your mind like a trash can, don't be surprised when you reach for a thought and all you get is garbage.

One of the biggest steps to gaining control over one’s life is gaining control over one’s self.

Every time you change something unique about yourself in order to be just like someone else, a piece of the best part of you dies.

Never stop seeking meaningful ways to improve yourself and you will be rewarded with a life that attracts and reflects more of the things that are meaningful to you.

The love you put into what you do always finds its way back to you.

Don’t squander your potential living a life that amounts to far less than the one you are capable of living.

ready to waste a lifetime waiting to be carried by the same winds again

The longer we tolerate things that we find unappealing or unacceptable, the more normal they seem and the less those things shock us. This is how “I can’t believe it.” becomes “That’s just the way things are.

Be a person who believes in the possibility of positive change because it is often the belief in something that creates the possibility.

what matters is fulfilling those four capacities with which we’re born—love, hope, faith, and respect for the truth—while holding fast to the humility of

Sometimes it takes a broken frame to see the bigger picture.

Your emerald eyes turn to marble as we fuse

You closed your eyes while I was getting lost in them.

In our blissful swirl of self-interruption we forget some days are about surviving.

Contrary to when in company, I rarely feel lonely being alone.

Everything seemed bigger when we were kids, but most of all time did.

I come in peace,” he says, which is the truth, because for the sake of peace he has come to kill them all.

succeed, the movement must break the bonds between parents and children, between husbands and wives.

To succeed, the movement must break the bonds between parents and children, between husbands and wives.

Under her restlessness and licentious pose is a repressed wholesomeness that will always make her regret devaluing herself, which, even in these strange times, he believes is true of more people than not. “Veronica,” she says, referring to another waitress, “says you look dangerous. But the girl has zero spirit of adventure.” “Good for her,” Nameless says. “Girls who

This is the deep-space commercial tug Nostromo, registration number one eight zero, two four six, en route to Earth with bulk cargo crude petroleum and appropriate refinery. Calling Antarctica traffic control. Do you read me? Over.

Arinwald’s favorite film has become the version of 1984 starring John Hurt and Richard Burton; the moment that most satisfies in that production is when Burton says to Hurt, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.

The time has come. The chill born in this moment is like no other he has ever known. It does not arise along the ladder of his spine, nor from his gut, but swells in his chest and spreads out to every extremity, as if a refrigerant has been added to his blood.

The world should be run by experts, not by politicians and certainly not by the common men and women who elect them. At least 90 percent of humanity is too stupid or too ignorant or too impractical to be trusted with as much freedom as this country has long allowed.

most matters is not those things for which either politics or materialism tells us to strive, that what matters is fulfilling those four capacities with which we’re born—love, hope, faith, and respect for the truth—while holding fast to the humility of the very young, which too often we leave behind with childhood.

Ace is right to select this simple yet special film, for it reminds Porter that what most matters is not those things for which either politics or materialism tells us to strive, that what matters is fulfilling those four capacities with which we’re born—love, hope, faith, and respect for the truth—while holding fast to the humility of the very young, which too often we leave behind with childhood.

Information is our latest, our brightest, commodity. “In a world of material goods and material exchange, trade is a zero-sum game,” says inventor Dean Kamen. “I’ve got a hunk of gold and you have a watch. If we trade, then I have a watch and you have a hunk of gold. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange them, then we both have two ideas. It’s nonzero.

One way to avoid the design problems encountered by the transcendental meditation researchers would be to keep one of the variables fixed. This could be either the number of meditators or the “target” of consciousness-induced order. Beyond this, as philosopher Evan Fales and sociologist Barry Markovsky of the University of Iowa suggested after reviewing the Maharishi effect, “Presumably, if the material world can be influenced in purposive ways by collective meditation, inanimate detectors could be constructed and placed at varying distances from the collective meditators.”6 This is essentially the approach that we took, although our motivations were based upon a logical extension of laboratory research on mind-matter interactions using random-number generators, and not by the claims of the transcendental meditators. Properties of Consciousness Whatever else consciousness may be, let us suppose that it also has the following properties, derived from a combination of Western and Eastern philosophies.7 The first property is that consciousness extends beyond the individual and has quantum field–like properties, in that it affects the probabilities of events. Second, consciousness injects order into systems in proportion to the “strength” of consciousness present. This is a refinement of quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s observation about one of the most remarkable properties of life, namely, an “organism’s astonishing gift … of ‘drinking orderliness’ from a suitable environment.”8 Third, the strength of consciousness in an individual fluctuates from moment to moment, and is regulated by focus of attention. Some states of consciousness have higher focus than others. We propose that ordinary awareness has a fairly low focus of attention compared to peak states, mystical states, and other nonordinary states.9 Fourth, a group of individuals can be said to have “group consciousness.” Group consciousness strengthens when the group’s attention is focused on a common object or event, and this creates coherence among the group. If the group’s attention is scattered, then the group’s mental coherence is also scattered. Fifth, when individuals in a group are all attending to different things, then the group consciousness and group mental coherence is effectively zero, producing what amounts to background noise. We assume that the maximum degree of group coherence is related in some complicated way to the total number of individuals present in the group, the strength of their common focus of attention, and other psychological, physiological, and environmental factors. Sixth, physical systems of all kinds respond to a consciousness field by becoming more ordered. The stronger or more coherent a consciousness field, the more the order will be evident. Inanimate objects (like rocks) will respond to order induced by consciousness as well as animate ones (like people, or tossed dice), but it is only in the more labile systems that we have the tools to readily detect these changes in order. In sum, when a group is actively focused on a common object, the “group mind” momentarily has the “power to organize,” as Carl Jung put it.10 This leads us to a very simple idea: as the mind moves, so moves matter.

Those who seem to be cheerful and claim to be blessed are liars whose pretension of happiness is meant to make others envious and miserable, which is one more reason to be contemptuous of self-proclaimed optimists and their ilk.

Purina’s exposure to the hog business was not limited at all. The volatile markets exposed that fact. In 1998, the US hog market experienced a shock comparable to the stock market crash of 1929—a market convulsion that obliterated all the rules everyone thought applied to the business. The root of the problem could be traced to the very industrialization that created Purina Mills’ feed business in the first place. Now that hogs were raised on factory farms, the supply of animals was enormous and inflexible. Farmers were raising herds of tens or even hundreds of thousands of pigs. When prices started to fall, these industrial farms couldn’t adapt quickly. They had mortgage payments to meet on the big pig houses, and they needed to keep production high. Factory farms were a machine that wasn’t easily turned off. The flow of pigs continued into the slaughterhouses, and prices fell even further. Then everything spun out of control. Hog prices plummeted, sucking the entire business into the ground almost instantly. The price of hogs fell from about 53 cents per pound to 10 cents per pound in a matter of months. When adjusted for inflation, this was the lowest price for pigs in US history. It cost far more to raise a pig than the animal was worth. Purina Mills should have been insulated against this crisis. It only sold feed, not the hogs themselves. But with its decision in 1997 to start buying baby hogs, Purina had exposed itself to the risk of falling pork prices. Dean Watson began to discover just how large that exposure was. As one farm economist put it at the time, the rational number of hogs to own in 1998 was zero. Purina discovered this fact quickly. It bought baby hogs, and turned around to sell them to the farmers. But there were no buyers. The farmers refused to take them. “The people who we were supposed to be selling the pigs to were basically saying: ‘Sue me.’ The people we had bought the pigs from were saying: ‘You’re not getting out of my contract or I am suing you,’ ” Watson said. “All of this ownership risk that I was assured didn’t exist started to just come out of the woodwork.

On the same pages, at different times.

How low do you want this fire to burn for it to cast no shadows?

There's no movement without direction.

At night I still wake up falling through the hole I tore into your dream.

There's only two things that affect rational thought - one is fear, the other is love. Who am I to judge a scared lover?

I don't know which idea threatens me more - to appear part of society or spending a lifetime trying to please it.