Formulas Quotes

• I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

  Herbert Bayard Swope

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Relationship, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

  J. Paul Getty

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Hard Times

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• I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

  Joseph Conrad

  Peace, Men, Relaxation

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.2339, e-artnow

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• I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

  Jet Li

  Art, Real, Hero

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• A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

  Chet Atkins

  Long, Giving, Alternatives

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• The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Business, Educational

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• Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Revenge, Interesting, Redemption

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• I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.

  Robert Sternberg

  Kids, Math, Groups

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• The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Silly, Math, Doubt

  Eric Temple Bell (1937). “Men of Mathematics”

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• Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Passion, Joy

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• I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

  Alan Dundes

  Past, Worldview, Times Past

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• But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Realization, Individual, Accepting

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• I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

  Piers Anthony

  Elements, Want, Guilty

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• Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

  Sam Ewing

  Success, Business, Simple

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• Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Birthday, Faith, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

  Dante Hall

  Football, College, Nfl

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• I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.

  Margot Kidder

  Drama, Evil, Greek

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Race, Risk, Thank God

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• I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various

  Irwin Shaw

  Style, Sticks, Stuck

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• There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

  Jackie Stewart

  Sports, Risk, Doubt

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• I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Sports, Race, Years

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• I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.

  Javier Bardem

  Choices

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• I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

  Thom Gunn

  Trying, Want, Corny

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• The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

  Yahoo Serious

  Stories, Corny

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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