Formal Quotes - Page 12

• Beginning in the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution, when women started to go into the formal workforce, leaving working at home to working in factories, countries realized they needed to do something. And they started to pass paid maternity leave.

  Jody Heymann

  Country, Home, Leaving

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Chinese are already more on board than we are. China is the only country that actually discussed in formal government documents how important it is to control the size of your populations if you’re going to limit emissions.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Country, Government, Chinese

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November, 2008.

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• We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

  A. N. Wilson

  Worthy, Organized, Collectives

  A. N. Wilson (1991). “Against religion”, Vintage

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• Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then we take those things away for the next twelve years of their education and expect kids to be architects and engineers.

  Ann Lewin-Benham

  Education, Children, Block

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• I certainly love a boogie and once the music starts I'm usually one of the first out there on the dance floor. Although I haven't had any formal dance training and something tells me I'm really going to notice the difference.

  Ainsley Harriott

  Differences, Training, Firsts

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• Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments can generally be trusted only if they remain short; even moderately long nonmathematical arguments rapidly becomes farfetched an dubious.

  Jacob T. Schwartz

  Character, Long, Common Sense

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• There is something servile in the interpretation of sin as crime which infringes the will of God and calls for legal proceedings on the part of God. Sin is dividedness, a state of deficiency, incompleteness, dissociation, enslavement, hatred, but it is not disobedience and not formal violation of the will of God.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Hatred, Sin, Crime

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• I've never felt like a trophy wife. I have been able to learn a lot in my role. The fact that you do not have any formal powers does not mean that one does not have a good starting point to give their opinion on important value questions. I really feel that I can put the spotlight on many issues that are important in Norwegian society. And I am very happy.

  Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

  Mean, Important Values, Issues

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• Formal art is essentially rational.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Rational, Art Is

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• Bringing undocumented immigrants out from the shadows, putting them into the formal economy will be good, because then employers can't exploit them and undercut Americans' wages.

  Hillary Clinton

  Shadow, Wages, Economy

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• So a lot of what you see in the Baroque Cycle is me wanting to be one of those guys. In the case of Anathem, I needed something that was more formal, less flashy, as if it had been translated from the classical language of another planet, but enlivened with slang terms that a teenage narrator would enjoy throwing around.

  Neal Stephenson

  Teenage, Guy, Narrators

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2) to establish systems of formal and informal communication; and (3) to ensure the willingness of people to cooperate.

  Chester Barnard

  Communication, Responsibility, Organization

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• Ideally you do want people to treat you professionally in return, but not everyone necessarily does that. This acting job - it pays very well and you get to live a wonderful lifestyle, but it's something that I love doing, so I want to work with other people who enjoy it as well ... Maybe if I met the Queen I'd be nervous, though I'd probably be more nervous about doing things the right way because it's a very formal occasion.

  Henry Cavill

  Jobs, Queens, People

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Wedding, Real, Simple

  Alexander McCall Smith (2011). “The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

  Edward Norton

  Tired, Levels, Coastal

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• There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything out, and it's more important how it sounds. And applying that to more formal aspects of writing.

  James Frey

  Writing, Thinking, Important

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• The goal of formal education has always been to produce people who could continue to learn on their own.

  Ronald Gross

  People, Goal, Produce

  Ronald Gross (1977). “The Life Long Learner”

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• Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority. Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That's true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.

  Tom Peters

  Military, War, Mean

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• ...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things, then tries to claim he never said them, there's no rule against calling him a mendacious idiot - and no special qualifications required to make that pronouncement other than doing your own homework.Conversely, if someone without formal credentials consistently makes trenchant, insightful observations, he or she has earned the right to be taken seriously, regardless of background.

  Paul Krugman

  Stupid, Taken, Ideas

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• By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.

  Nina Simone

  School, Eight, Piano

  Source: boscarol.com

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• Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.

  Clive Ponting

  House, Debate, Bans

  Clive Ponting (1990). “Secrecy in Britain”

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• The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons.

  Leonard L. Berry

  Done, Research, Firsts

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• There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.

  Michael Jackson

  Machines, World, Requirements

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• Don't freight your answers with any notions of what you're "supposed" to do, and just see where your feelings point you. It can feel weird to be so formal about it, but if you're not used to doing it, then there's no shame in retraining yourself.

  Carolyn Hax

  Feelings, Answers, Shame

  "Carolyn Hax Live: Use the china". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.

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• Green Giant contained a very strong and clear site and building design concept. Green Giant had strong formal, aesthetic and programmatic concepts, coupled with a good understanding and incorporation of 2030 Palette design strategies.

  Edward Mazria

  Strong, Design, Understanding

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