Notion
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So that is the way I feel: that I can only try to approach this
notion
of being compassionate, of understanding that there is a connectivity, that there is a unity in this world; that I want to try and serve that unity, and that I can try and do that by understanding, I hope, trying to understand something of the pain of others; but understanding that there are limits, that people have to bear responsibility for some of the problems that come upon them; and that I have to understand that there are limits to my energy, to the giving I can give.
Again, I know this is not as inspiring a
notion
of compassion as you may have heard in the past, but from a biologist's point of view, this reciprocal altruism kind of compassion is ultimately self-serving too.
Indeed, what worries me is the entire
notion
of world leadership seems to me terribly archaic.
Nonetheless, it's given rise to the
notion
that maybe it's not just these prima donnas that have these supermassive black holes, but rather all galaxies might harbor these supermassive black holes at their centers.
And so what I'm going to do is, not so much give you the great hits of that program, as to give you this whole
notion
of how you encounter people in that kind of situation, what you try to find out about them, and when people deliver and when they don't and why.
But also to challenge the
notion
of suspension of disbelief such that in the last act of Macbeth, if he or she wants you to associate the parable that you're seeing with Dallas, with your real life, he or she can do so.
So the notion, you change the soil, the seed doesn't grow as well.
And those are two very different concepts, and they're both lumped in the
notion
of happiness.
Those are two very different entities, the experiencing self and the remembering self, and getting confused between them is part of the mess about the
notion
of happiness.
Very different
notion.
It is a completely different
notion.
A mental model is a
notion
we have that this is the way the world works.
The whole
notion
is if this happens, then I will be happy.
It lacks the
notion
of alternating, or taking turns, and it's always on the minor road, allowing the major one to have primacy.
And there's no notion, no version of human morality and human values that I've ever come across that is not at some point reducible to a concern about conscious experience and its possible changes.
Now, many of you might worry that the
notion
of well-being is truly undefined, and seemingly perpetually open to be re-construed.
And so, how therefore can there be an objective
notion
of well-being?
They're challenging the very
notion
of Western models of development.
So I think as you can see, this
notion
of paralysis by choice affects music more than movies, for example.
Some of these are hopeless universes, completely sterile, with other kinds of pathologies like no
notion
of space, no
notion
of time, no matter, other problems like that.
So early on, we developed the
notion
of putting in watermarks in the DNA to absolutely make clear that the DNA was synthetic.
The retailers have kind of quashed this
notion
though.
But before I went out to photograph this component, I sort of wrestled with the
notion
of how do you make a picture of a dead shark that will resonate with readers You know, I think there's still a lot of people out there who think the only good shark is a dead shark.
Well, that
notion
stayed with me, and 20 years later, after becoming a professional photographer, I was able to talk National Geographic into doing a big story in the central Sahara, and I came back with a new kind of flying machine.
Other people, like David Packard and Julie Packard, who were instrumental in producing the Monterey Bay aquarium to lock into people's
notion
that the ocean and the health of the ocean ecosystem were just as important to the economy of this area as eating the ecosystem would be.
We were called the "Bad News Bears," and our
notion
was we were going to corner the snack food business in Kigali, which was not hard because there were no snacks before us.
So, for example, most of you are probably familiar with the
notion
of herd immunity.
The
notion
of Barbara having been betrayed by her friend was not explored at all - in fact she didn't even seem to feel betrayed by her husband; she even encourages him to go on a holiday with Leonora.
This
notion
is commonplace, even banal.
The initial exposition plants the
notion
in the viewers mind that everybody has something against him, so when the revelation comes that he has been poisoned, we are not that surprised, unless of course you are familiar with the original.
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