Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amoco-BP has shown the way, ... Big is better because you need more power to discover oil and you need more strength.

All of this discussion sounds very familiar because it's gone on before, and before and before that.

All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication.

Edward Teller

[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.

Edward Tufte

The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.

Edith Hamilton

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

The markets are going to discount Nigerian production in the price of oil. It could be that it shuts down all of Shell's onshore operations in Nigeria.

The mayor is expected to discuss where we before the storm, and what we have done since the storm, and will be unveiling an initiative for the long-term recovery.

Napoleon Hill

We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

Oscar de la Renta

Style begins by looking good naked. It's a discipline. And if you don't dress well every day, you lose the habit. It's not about what you wear, but about how you live your life.

Ellen Lupton

Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

Joseph Addison

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.

Joseph Addison

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology.

Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.

Jonathan Winters

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

Hector Hugh Munro

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.

Mahatma Gandhi

Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.

Mahatma Gandhi

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

John C. Maxwell

Discipline - Success doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.

John C. Maxwell

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

John C. Maxwell

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

Johannes Stark

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.

Johannes Stark

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

Frederick Buechner

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

George Eliot

and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

Ravi Zacharias

Life has been reduced to temporal pursuits disconnected from all the other disciplines necessary for life to be meaningfully engaged.

Solomon Asch

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

James Russell Lowell

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

James Randi

Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.