Famous Quotes & Sayings

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The discipline of singing early music has a special sound -- (it's) very clear.

The discipline of not doing something value-destructive to them is a good thing.

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.

Hermann Hesse

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Henri Poincare

Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.

Henri Poincare

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

Henri Poincare

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

Henrik Ibsen

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

Henri Nouwen

As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit.

Henri Nouwen

The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness that my that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I 'know' God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can desire only one thing: to be in that love.

Henri Nouwen

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

Henry R. Luce

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

Henry Paulson

For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.

Heraclitus

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

Helen Dunmore

Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.--Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

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.

Marvin Minsky

But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.

Michelle Yeoh

I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion...it was much more graceful and contained than that.

Michel Foucault

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

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.