Convergence Quotes (13 quotes)

“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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“Plot is a by-product of Character.”
― Dan Joseph Decker, ANATOMY OF A SCREENPLAY THIRD EDITION

tags: character, convergence, craft, engaging, guide, practical, resource, screenwriting, story, structure

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“Duane just kept working, not even looking up.”
― Stan Lee

tags: comics, convergence, inspirational, marvel, marvel-comics, stan-lee

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“The symptoms of a writer who hasn鈥檛 found their way clear of the needs of Self yet are easy to spot. I should say the symptoms are easy for everyone else to spot, that is, and not so easy for the writer themself to see. You鈥檒l see a writer who does not trust the characters to speak and move on their own, but has to puppeteer them; a writer who does not trust the reader to understand what鈥檚 written. One who must insert parentheticals in various forms to explain the work to the reader; flashbacks to explain; big black blocks of text on the page to explain; question-and-answer dialog between characters who aren鈥檛 in a courtroom; walk-and-talk characters with their mouths full of dialog of what the story is about; too many stage directions that make the script read like a novel鈥�”
― Dan Joseph Decker, ANATOMY OF A SCREENPLAY THIRD EDITION

tags: character, convergence, craft, guide, miovie, practical, reference, screenplay, screenwriting, structure

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“Build bridges, not walls.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: barriers, bridges, bridges-quotes, convergence, cultural-understanding, cultures, diversity, division, love, peace, suzy-kassem, understanding, united, unity, walls, world-peace

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“There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available.”
― Osho, Zen: The Path of Paradox

tags: convergence, existence, moment, time, zen

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“Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate; and it is not impossible that the poet in New Wye and the thug in New York awoke that morning at the same crushed beat of their Timekeeper's stopwatch.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

tags: convergence, destiny, fate, time

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“Today more than ever, the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, technology, finance, national security and ecology are disappearing. You often cannot explain one without referring to the others, and you cannot explain the whole without reference to them all.”
― Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree

tags: convergence

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“There are many examples where species share common plastic traits. What appears to be convergence may just be the plastic response of the organism to its environment. Examples include the following: Limbs that protrude from an animal鈥檚 body have more surface area per unit mass than the rest of the body. In cold weather the animal loses more heat per unit mass from these limbs than from other parts of the body. In many species the tails and legs are shorter for those living in colder climates and larger for those in warmer climates. Gulls鈥� wings are shorter in cold climates than in warm. Hares and foxes also have shorter ears in cold climates than in warm. Eskimos have shorter arms and legs than do people living in warmer climates. . . . Jodan鈥檚 rule: Many species of fish tend to have more vertebrae when they live in cold water than do the same species living in warm water. These differences have been shown to depend on the temperature at which the fish have been reared.
What these rules show is not convergence. They show that different species adopt the same anatomical strategies when they have to cope with the same environmental conditions. We have seen that these strategies cannot come from random mutations. It is much more reasonable to say they come from environmental cues acting on the genetic program.”
― Lee Spetner

tags: convergence, evolution, jodan-s-rule, neo-darwinism, plastic-traits

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“[Charles Fritz wrote in 1957] 'Movement toward the disaster area usually is both quantitatively and qualitatively more significant that flight or evacuation from the scene of destruction.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

tags: convergence, disaster-volunteers

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“Mentor Me: ...the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect.”
― Ken Poirot, Mentor Me: GA=T+E鈥擜 Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement

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“The brain homology hypothesis entails losses across the board, with more than 75 percent of existing animal phyla having quite literally lost their heads and exhibiting secondarily degenerated nervous systems. In contrast, the convergence scenario does not require any brain/head/eye losses in the bilaterian phyla that lack these features, because in that hypothesis these groups never had them in the first place. Instead, the heavy lifting for the convergene hypothesis comes through its remarkable postulation that brains originated from primeval nervous systems at least three or four times within Bilateria. Both the homology scenario. and the convergence scenario seem improbable, and yet one of them must be true.
Given that both scenarios are consistent with the extant phylogenetic distribution of nervous systems, which hypothesis offers the better explanation of the observed data? [...] The scientific jury is still deliberating and far from a verdict. We are therefore venturing into the frontiers of scientific knowledge.”
― Russell Powell, Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind

tags: contingency, convergence, frontier, neural-systems, science

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“It might be wondered whether any specific weighting type was crucial in producing convergence, but under this same population, any three of the weighting systems (again, randomly assigned) resulted in fixation on R2, giving some reason to believe that the convergence dynamic is not driven by specific types. Moreover, it was typically the case that a more diverse assortment of weighting types (all four) produced convergence quicker than populations with less diversity. Combinations of types certainly can have an effect; omitting the Highly Conditional Cooperators, for example, slowed down convergence. This is interesting. In many ways, Highly Conditional Cooperators seem an impediment to moral convergence. They can be understood as viewing moral action as a Stag Hunt or Assurance Game, in which most other must play 'Act Morally' before they do. One might expect them to play the 'risk dominant' equilibrium. But as part of a social process, they can perform a critical role, spurring the completion of convergence, preventing it from 'sputtering out.”
― Gerald F. Gaus, The Open Society and Its Complexities

tags: convergence, self-organization

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