Consulting Quotes

• To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Matter, Facts

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.6, Routledge

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• Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Law, Littles

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• We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land - nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.

  Daniel Webster

  Stars, Ocean, Land

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1903). “Writings and speeches hitherto uncollected, v. 1. Addresses on various occasions”

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• The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

  James F. Cooper

  Life, Business, Vision

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• If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Life, God, Wisdom

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• At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time.

  Roger Staubach

  Sports, Team, Design

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• Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  School, Scientist, Mainstream

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• After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

  David Minge

  Teaching, Special, Minnesota

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• The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Skeletons, Waiting, Dying

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• Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Dirty, Book, Winning

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.145, Penguin UK

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• We also provide a lot of services with our consulting group that allow people to take maximum advantage of the Net economy. Those all seem to resonate with customers and are providing a good strong base going forward.

  James L. Barksdale

  Strong, People, Groups

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• I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

  Jack Kilby

  Two, Directors, Littles

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• Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Independent, Judging, Would Be

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• Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

  William C. Kirby

  Jobs, Leader, Political

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• Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  Ludwig Van Beethoven (2004). “Beethoven: The Man and the Artist”, p.17, 1st World Publishing

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• It's not that I haven't given it (turning pro) careful thought, it's just that I am torn as to which course I should take. There is no need to rush. I won't be consulting anybody about this and I will do things my own way.

  Shizuka Arakawa

  Needs, Way, Should

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• There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.

  Marie Corelli

  Depressing, Self, World

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• HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment

  Jim Butcher

  Party, Advice, Wizards

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.17, Penguin Group

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• It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Power, Thinking, Divine Right

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• I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

  Indra Nooyi

  America, Yale, Boston

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• "What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"

  Evelyn Waugh

  War, Thinking, Should Have

  EVELYN WAUGH (1958). “VILE BODIES & BLACK MISCHIEF”

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• The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship, his obstinacy matching my patience, this unholy team of fire and water was bound to produce something. Towards the end of the year, after consulting sundry artists, including Arp, Mondrian, and Van Doesburg, we drew up the program for a new group and launched a magazine which was be called 'Cercle et Carré'.

  Michel Seuphor

  Team, Artist, Fire

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• Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.

  Sue Grafton

  Writing, Eye, Self

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• Professors typically spend their time in meetings about planning, policy, proposals, fund-raising, consulting, interviewing, traveling, and so forth, but spend relatively little time at their drawing boards. As a result, they lose touch with the substance of their rapidly developing subject. They lose the ability to design; they lose sight of what is essential; and they resign themselves to teach academically challenging puzzles.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Sight, Drawing, Design

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• Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Beach, Doctors, People

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