Formal Quotes - Page 17

• We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order.

  Lewis Mumford

  Order, Mind, Principles

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Husband, Wife, Important

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

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• Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of the Indo-Persian miniature-painting genre has often been at the core of my practice.

  Shahzia Sikander

  Art, Illustration, Practice

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• Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal course of study that was completed.

  Bell Hooks

  Art, Believe, Reading

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• I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

  Jerry Lewis

  Doors, Common Sense, Instinct

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• With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.

  Anton Corbijn

  Photography, People, Lucky

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• My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

  Akio Morita

  Education, Jobs, People

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• I predict a long reign ahead of you. Years of being referred to as Your Majesty, Your Grace, Your Excellence, My Liege, My Queen, My Lovely.” “I don’t think that last one is a formal title,” I said. “It should be.

  Amanda Hocking

  Queens, Thinking, Years

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.548, Pan Macmillan

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• Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Tree, World, Shrubs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.89

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• For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction.

  David Carson

  Interesting, Design, Training

  "(Designed by) DAVID CARSON / Speak, an edgy new magazine for the video generation pushes, folds and mutilates the visual envelope" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. March 05, 1996.

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• In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

  Aravind Adiga

  School, Self, Entrepreneur

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?" "I don't know any other way." "Let me show you." And then we're kissing. Or at least, I think we're kissing—I've only seen it done a couple of times, quick closed-mouth pecks at weddings or on formal occasions. But this isn't like anything I've ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: this is like music or dancing but better than both.

  Lauren Oliver

  Couple, Kissing, Thinking

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• Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Kings, Years, Usual

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• If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will interfere with the informal process of open-source itself. It seems to me the DHS is trying to turn an open-source development project into a Microsoft (or IBM or Oracle) software development project. And we know what that means: more, not fewer, errors -- security and otherwise.

  Mark Hall

  Mean, Errors, Trying

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• Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning," Shane said. "Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special occasions, like prom and kid's birthdays?

  Rachel Caine

  Girl, Kids, Hands

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.190, Penguin

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• I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

  Scott Westerfeld

  College, Class, Training

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• It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

  B. F. Skinner

  Tasks, Students, Behavior

  "Performance-based Assessment for Middle and High School Physical Education". Book by Jacalyn Lea Lund and Mary Fortman Kirk, p. 165, 2002.

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• Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.

  Donald Barthelme

  War, World, Painter

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• I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.

  Josh Lanyon

  Ears, Odd, Term

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• Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to do so. Our system is quite good at producing reliable theorems that can be solidly backed up. It's just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas.

  William Thurston

  Math, Thinking, Errors

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• The plain, unvarnished truth is, that every one of us needs the accountability that comes from formal, regular, intimate relationships with other godly people.

  Wayne Mack

  Godly, Intimate Relationships, People

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• One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

  Edward Gibbon

  Education, Clever, Ideas

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• A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but it will help the actual mind to approximate that ideal.

  Harold Jeffreys

  Mind, Details, Helping

  Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.421, OUP Oxford

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• Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Ideas, Mixing, Speech

  "Memo to Obama: Get back in touch" by Dee Dee Myers, www.politico.com. March 12, 2010.

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• I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Notebook, Exercise, Self

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Linda M. Pavonetti, www.scholastic.com.

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