A Quote by C. J. Cherryh
Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.
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The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology.
There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.
"Leadership" is a big topic today. We know that the world - nations and communities in addition to companies - needs more and better leaders. So I wanted to explore how leaders make a difference, how they can shift a negative cycle, turn around a losing organization, propel a team to victory when conditions aren't perfect. I saw that what leaders do is build confidence in advance of victory. Then the confidence they produce makes the hope of success turn into the reality of success, because people behave differently when they are surrounded by a culture of confidence.
Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.
I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions craving, which conditions clinging, which conditions becoming, which conditions birth, which conditions aging and death.
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