Adopting Quotes - Page 7

• A system such as classical mechanics may be 'scientific' to any degree you like; but those who uphold it dogmatically - believing, perhaps, that it is their business to defend such a successful system against criticism as long as it is not conclusively disproved - are adopting the very reverse of that critical attitude which in my view is the proper one for the scientist.

  Karl Popper

  Attitude, Believe, Successful

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.28, Routledge

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• Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite controlling in its pace. He retained something from his childhood, that London sound, as well as adopting some of the L.A. sounds... All of this helps you create the character.

  Toby Jones

  Character, Voice, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can see myself adopting. I'm not in a rush to do it. I'm 39, I know, but I do love kids, and I'm very good - I've got a lot of really good moves.

  Sarah Silverman

  Moving, Kids, Very Good

  "Sarah Silverman: Turning Ignorance Into Comedy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 22, 2010.

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• Mann was conscious of adopting different perspectives in different parts of the novella, but my guess is that there are plenty of passages in which the resonance of the words he chose struck him as exactly right (even though he didn't probe to discover exactly what tone or narrative device gave them that effect).

  Philip Kitcher

  Perspective, Different, Narrative

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I have to say, that I am delighted that Secretary [Hillary] Clinton month after month after month seems to be adopting more and more of the positions that we have advocated.

  Hillary Clinton

  Months, Clinton, Position

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.

  George Mason

  Country, Mean, Thank God

  Letter to his son, George Mason, January 8, 1783.

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• The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs.

  Narendra Modi

  Mps, Empowerment, India

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• Many couples have made commitments to sexual purity, but instead of adopting a lifestyle that supports this commitment, they continue relationships that encourage physical expression and place themselves in dangerous settings. The path you take with your feet should never contradict the conviction of your heart.

  Joshua Harris

  Couple, Heart, Commitment

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.97, Multnomah

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• Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you is important.

  Brad Warner

  Attitude, Truth, Mean

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.158, New World Library

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• The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Mind, Argument

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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• I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are--and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined).

  Po Bronson

  Careers, People, Creative

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• I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. And this right hemispheric denigration would manifest in two principal ways: Women's rights would be taken away, and images would be declared abominations.

  Leonard Shlain

  Taken, Two, Rights

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• To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Errors, Data, World

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• They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China.

  Lester R. Brown

  Fuel, Efficiency, China

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• The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.

  William Godwin

  Boys, Men, Independence

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• If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?

  Margaret Cho

  Children, Care, Want

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• Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Ideas, Space, Fire

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