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Thomas Davenport proposes a revolutionary new way to look at information management, one that takes into account the total information environment within an organization. Arguing that the information that comes from computer systems may be considerably less valuable to managers than information that flows in from a variety of other sources, the author describes an approach that encompasses the company's entire information environment, the management of which he calls information ecology.
— Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak. Information ecology: Mastering the information and knowledge environment. Oxford University Press, 1997.
To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho-physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change. Otherwise none of our thoughts and feelings, not even our scientific doctrines, not even our dis -beliefs, could retain any value as revelations of the truth, for every one of them without exception flows from the state of their possessor's body at the time.
william james— Lecture I, "Religion and Neurology"
One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
ramakrishna— p. 874 (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942))
No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.
erasmus darwin— Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden, Part II, Canto III, line 459.
As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but lot that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure is more truly cohijuered than a sorrow which we avoid.
alexander maclaren— P. 71. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
As long as Padma, Meghna, Gouri, Jamuna flows on, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, your accomplishment will also live on.
sheikh mujibur rahman— Anandashankar Ray.
Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
Matthew Arnold— "St. Paul and Protestantism" (1870).
Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light , which infinitely flows forth from God , as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes .
william law— As quoted in Art and the Message of the Church (1961) by Walter Ludwig Nathan, p. 120
The new information technologies can be seen to drive societies toward increasingly dynamic high-energy regions further and further from thermodynamical equilibrium, characterized by decreasing specific entropy and increasingly dense free-energy flows, accessed and processed by more and more complex social, economic, and political structures.
— Ervin László (1992) "Information Technology and Social Change: An Evolutionary Systems Analysis". Behavioral Science 37: p.247
And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.
john crowe ransom— 1924 Grace after Meat,'Parting at Dawn'.
Siehe, wir lieben nicht, wie die Blumen, aus einem einzigen Jahr; uns steigt, wo wir lieben, unvordenklicher Saft in dieArme. No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love.
Rainer Maria Rilke— 1923 Duinieser Elegien, no.3 (translated by Stephen Mitchell in The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke,1989).
Here Vaughan lies dead, whose name flows on for ever Through pastures of the spirit washed with dew And starlit with eternities unknown.
— 1928 The Heart'sJourney, pt.23,'At the Grave of HenryVaughan'.
But the stock market is not 1:1-it is not a zero sum game. So those deaf,dumb and blind economists can't find the capital flows.
andy kessler— Part VII, The Margin Surplus, Wealth How?, p. 261
Death, go somewhere, get lost! I’m not done as yet –Joy still flows from the amphora of colors into my cupped hands.
ghani khan— Reverie, st. 9
White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.
mark tobey— Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 39: Statement concerning his painting ‘Threading Light’
Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.
Zinedine Zidane— Franz Beckenbauer, 2003 [8]
But that which Wordsworth knew, even the old man When poetry had failed like desire, was something I have yet to learn, and you, Duddon, Have learned and re-learned to forget and forget again. Not the radical, the poet and heretic, To whom the water-forces shouted and the fells Were like a blackboard for the scrawls of God, But the old man, inarticulate and humble, Knew that eternity flows in a mountain beck .
william wordsworth— Norman Nicholson "To the River Duddon", line 54 (1944).
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
james joyce— To Jacques Mercanton, on the structure of Ulysses, as quoted in James Joyce: The Critical Heritage (1997) by Robert H. Deming, p. 22
It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream.
leigh hunt— Leigh Hunt, Sonnet, The Nile.
Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.
— Trial and Error [1] (1980)
Death, go somewhere, get lost! I’m not done as yet – Joy still flows from the amphora of colors into my cupped hands.
— Reverie, st. 9
The beloved does not drink a single drop of water without seeing His Face in the cup. Allah is He Who flows between the pericardium and the heart, just as the tears flow from the eyelids.
— As quoted in Mystical Dimensions of Islam (1978) by Annemarie Schimmel
In modern times, if the sole measure of what's out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.
neil degrasse tyson— Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Heaven today is but a way to a place I once called home. Once my heart beat to the rhythm of the falling snow, blackened below, the river now flows, a stream of molten virgin snow.
— For the Heat I Once Had
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.
— Gladys Tabor in Still Cove Journal.
Soul means Brahma; and the Brhmajnan flows through soul to the intellect . That is termed Atmajnan . Thus Soul (Atma), Brahma, and Om have same meaning.
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, in "Discovery of God", p.101
