Curves Quotes - Page 11

• Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Life And Death, Mystery

  Aleister Crowley, “Thanatos Basileos”

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• One of the phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new.

  Reid Hoffman

  Unique, Degrees, Looks

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• It's really up to me to speed up my learning curve as a player so I can contribute in a much bigger way night in and night out.

  Kevin Martin

  Player, Night, Way

  Source: thestartingfive.net

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• I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves.

  Seymour Hersh

  Tabula Rasa, Theory, Learning Curve

  Source: www.learntoquestion.com

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• I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don't use social media a lot. I fall in a weird age gap. I was on band message boards when I was 16, but I was on the early curve of Facebook. I did it for work when I worked in media, and I did it for the band, but I can't relate to the idea that you live your life online.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Fall, Media, Ideas

  "Eyes Wide Open". Interview with Corin Tucker, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2015.

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• I wrote the book based on a blog that I keep. I also tweet. I don't think that for an incredibly old fart I'm totally behind the power curve. I really believe that the essentials of human relationships remain the same.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Believe, Thinking

  Source: iveybusinessjournal.com

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• Part of my learning curve as a novice screenwriter was peeling back the layers and getting to the core of the story. I was really blessed to have two amazing writing mentors who helped me along the way. They always encouraged me to be okay with a simple story.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Blessed, Writing, Simple

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Think of at least three ways to generate income from your knowledge, passion and expertise. Yes, there may be a learning curve until you are actually doing it, but you're going to love the extra money flowing in.

  Meera Lester

  Passion, Thinking, Income

  Meera Lester (2009). “365 Ways to Live Happy: Simple Ways to Find Joy Every Day”, p.82, Adams Media

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• Your smile is the most gorgeous curve on your body.

  Bobbie Thomas

  Your Smile, Body, Gorgeous

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• You really can't prepare for anything in life. The second you know what's going to happen, there's always a curve ball, so I'm just chillin', cruising along for the ride.

  Shailene Woodley

  Balls, Anything In Life, Happens

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• There's no real manual on being a parent. There's no real manual on being a wife. I keep reminding myself, My mother did all this, only she never got to leave the house. OK, I can do this. We're all learning on our own learning curve.

  Kelly Ripa

  Mother, Real, Wife

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.

  William J. Clinton

  Two, Childhood, Cost

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

  Prince Charles

  Design, Feelings, Arches

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• Finding another way to do what I know I can do pretty well. A way that stimulates me. I'm always on some sort of learning curve. If I can continually be surprised then I'm alert.

  Robert Plant

  Way, Wells, Findings

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I love trains. It's the only way to travel anymore where it doesn't involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of my inner thigh.

  Bill Maher

  Tsa, Agents, Way

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• Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Infinite, Constant, Finitude

  Gilles Deleuze (2006). “Foucault”, p.80, A&C Black

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• The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)

  Aristotle

  Reality, Hands, Two

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• If the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on the vertical, the relation between the two is represented by the logarithmic curve. Could this rule provide a clue to the relationship between the objective measure of information, and our subjective perception of it?

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Axes, Two, Perception

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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• The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.

  Andy Serkis

  Shots, Learning Curve

  "The Hobbit Gets Andy Serkis as a Second Unit Director" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 6, 2011.

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• I dont know too many parents that want to feed their kids soda, but high-fructose corn syrup is cheap. The price of soda in 20 years has gone down 40 percent while the price of whole foods, fruits and vegetables, has gone up 40 percent and obesity goes up right along that curve.

  Tom Colicchio

  Kids, Vegetables, Years

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• Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

  Tom Seaver

  Winning, Pitching, Plates

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• I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.

  Ted Lyons

  Vocabulary, Law, Littles

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• Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and -- or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Mother, Children, Giving

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. August 3, 2004.

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• Let the dry eyes perceive
  Others betray the lamenting lies of their losses
  By the curve of the nude mouth or the laugh up the sleeve.

  Dylan Thomas

  Lying, Eye, Loss

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• I love the slider. I'll throw it anytime. It helps the curve. The last five feet, it dives toward the left-handed hitter's box. It's a pitch that looks like a fastball coming in. It's a pitch I throw when I need a ground ball with a man on base.

  Kerry Wood

  Men, Feet, Needs

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