Calibration Quotes

• Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

  Jay Griffiths

  Space, Example, Needs

  " The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• La única calibración que cuenta es cuánto corazón invierte la gente, cuánto ignoran sus miedos a ser heridos o descubiertos o humillados. Y lo único de lo que se arrepiente la gente es de no haber vivido con suficiente audacia, de no haber invertido suficiente corazón, de no haber amado lo suficiente. Nada más cuenta.

  Ted Hughes

  Hurt, Regret, Fear

  Ted Hughes (2011). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, p.514, Faber & Faber

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• Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

  Jay Griffiths

  Grace, Timing, Individual

  "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you find it - by which morphological or expressive calibration? Where is your authentic body? You are the only one who can never see yourself except as an image; you never see your eyes unless they are dulled by the gaze they rest upon the mirror or the lens (I am interested in seeing my eyes only when they look at you): even and especially for your own body, you are condemned to the repertoire of its images.

  Roland Barthes

  Eye, Mirrors, Lenses

  Roland Barthes (1994). “Roland Barthes”

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• The 'gatekeepers' became a term of revile. But when you think about the flow of information, I personally value immensely the calibration a news organ, whether it's on the web or in print, brings to the floodwaters of information. I haven't the time to read all the dispatches of the Associated Press, for example. It's fantastic what they put out, it's extremely good, from all over the world. I like when someone acts as a filter.

  Harold Evans

  Thinking, News, World

  "Harold Evans ve un futuro brillante para los periódicos impresos a la carta". Entrevista realizada por Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. 29 de octubre de 2009.

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• El conocimiento tiene dos polos, y siempre son polos opuestos: el saber carnal, la imposición de manos, el colgar el hecho por la cabeza o los talones, la medición de la masa y el movimiento, la calibración de los golpes brutales, el recuento de las provisiones; y el saber espiritual, invisiblemente sentido por el yo interior, que no es más que un campo de distracción combatido, un escenario donde recitamos el monótono monólogo que es nuestra vida, un saber gobernado por mareas internas, por insinuaciones, motivos, resoluciones, por tentaciones, secreto, vergüenza y orgullo.

  William H. Gass

  Espiritual, Conocimiento, Orgullo

  William H. Gass (1997). "Finding a Form: Ensayos", p.179, Cornell University Press

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• If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would take, OK fine. But I personally prefer calibration from an aggregator or newspaper, where the No. 1 story is one they consider important, [and] they're usually right.

  Harold Evans

  Reading, Important, One Day

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It leaves a timeless mark that is verifiable as a calibration of a recorded level of conciousness.

  David Hawkins

  Historical, Levels, Consciousness

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