“Produce abundant scholarly fruits by which you and others can be nourished and strengthened, or at the least, produce something which, in falling to the ground largely unnoticed, feeds the soil. Compost is better than barren ground.”— Corey Anton, academia.eduTagged: Second-Hand Influence, Popularity vs. Importance, Impact vs. Influence, Being A Cultural Creator In A Wasteland, Science as a Vocation
“Others are environments. Nothing conveys how something is possible like watching someone do it before your very eyes. Be the other for others. Be part of the environment that helps others see what is possible.”— Corey Anton, academia.eduTagged: In Doing Is Teaching, Role Models, Setting A Good Example, Performance As Ethical Responsibility
“What are the words we speak if not an afterlife of the now deceased?”— Corey Anton, academia.eduTagged: The Ghosts of Language, What Is Speaking When We Are Speaking, Where The Words Come From, Ancestry, Language’s Underriver
“When you and another are in conversation, invisible others, ancient spirits are mediating your minds.”— Corey Anton, academia.eduTagged: History, Dead Languages, Ghosts Inside The Linguistic Machine, Who Comes When We Talk, What Is Conversation?
“The sea of history is where we all find ourselves, and language is an ancient invisible ship, a vessel by which we travel over all that we encounter.”— Corey Anton, academia.eduTagged: History, Dead Languages, Ghosts Inside The Linguistic Machine, Who Comes When We Talk, Metaphors
“Only as people are spoken about and thought about in their absence do their robust environmental characteristics show themselves.”— Corey Anton, academia.eduTagged: The Mark We Leave, Ghostly Impressions, Impact in Absence
“Parents and grandparents are veritable mountains that infants climb.”— Corey Anton, academia.eduTagged: Parenting, Child Rearing, Parental Figures as Educational Vessels, The Generations of History