Initials Quotes - Page 12

• With the initial focus groups and the initial look-sees, the Rams are a very popular team in Southern California. And so one of the reasons that it was attractive to us to work against them is because they have that good flavor.

  Jerry Jones

  Team, California, Southern

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• We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren't pedagogical. They weren't financial. They weren't curricular. They weren't research. They weren't any of the usual things we've always talked about as the engines of change. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.

  David Edward

  Educational, Emotional, Thinking

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• I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

  James Rothman

  Years, Firsts, Five

  "Scientists Win Nobel For Work On How Cells Communicate". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 7, 2013.

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• It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

  Roelof Botha

  Wall, Rushing, Long

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• We are talking about mutated women, the result of cruel genetic experiments performed by fashion designers so lacking in any sense of human decency that they think nothing of putting their initials on your eyeglass lenses. The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. If a normal woman puts on clothing designed for these unfortunate people, she is quite naturally going to look like Revenge of the Pork Person.

  Dave Barry

  Fashion, Revenge, Fall

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• As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by empirical data, the investigator rather develops a system of thought which, in general, is built up logically from a small number of fundamental assumptions, the so-called axioms. We call such a system of thought a theory. The theory finds the justification for its existence in the fact that it correlates a large number of single observations, and it is just here that the 'truth' of the theory lies.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Data, Numbers

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• It's great to have two cars and a swimming pool. But there are disappointments. After you've made some money and acquired some things, and after the initial excitement has passed, life goes on, just as bewildering as it always was, and the great problems of life and death once again come to the fore.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Disappointment, Swimming, Two

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• My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

  Jane Hamilton

  Giving, Way, Laissez Faire

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• Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.

  Pablo Picasso

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

  "Conversation avec Picasso". Interview with Christian Zervos, Cahiers d'Art, Volume X, No. 7-10 (pp. 173-178), 1935; later quoted in Richard Friedenthal "Letters of the Great Artists From Blake to Pollock" translated by Daphne Woodward (p. 258), 1963.

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• It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.

  Pablo Picasso

  Dream, Taken, Mean

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, Hudson, London, p. 256, 1963.

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• Philosophy by showing - including philosophy in literature - does truly valuable work in leading us to new perspectives from which our arguments can then begin. It does so by introducing new synthetic complexes, which we then reflect on from various points of view. When the complexes survive and grow, that initial showing has been philosophically decisive.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophy, Introducing New, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate.

  Winston Churchill

  Two, Kind, Ultimate

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• It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Different, Pseudonyms

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• Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.

  Hal Borland

  Work, Humble, Airplane

  Hal Borland (1946). “An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons”, New York

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• The journey of a thousand miles
  starts from beneath your feet.
  
  NOTE: Other translations exist, such as:Great trees grow from the smallest shoots;a terraced garden, from a pile of earth,and a journey of a thousand milesbegins by taking the initial step.

  Laozi

  Journey, Garden, Feet

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• I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Play, Challenges, Modern Family

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Shakespeare In The Park: ‘I Love The Challenge Of Starting A Play". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• Look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don’t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Decision, Alternatives, Looks

  Joel Greenblatt (2010). “You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market P”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Mind, May

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.30, 谷月社

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• King Kofi Kingston, that does have a nice ring to it. But not so much the initials, though.

  CM Punk

  Kings, Nice, Wwe

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• Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Mistake, Starting Over, Finals

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• Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Real, Sight, Investing

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.272, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures of an engineer's calculations as are the symbols indicating feet, minutes, pounds, or gallons. ... This statement, while true in regard to the work of all engineers, applies particularly to that of the mechanical engineer.

  Henry R. Towne

  Feet, Dollars, Pounds

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• If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a Socrates who is never content with the initial superficial response, but is always probing for finer distinctions, clearer examples, a more profound form of knowing. Our concept of knowledge has changed since classical times, but Socrates has provided us with a timeless educational goal - ever deeper understanding.

  Howard Gardner

  Educational, Teaching, Knowing

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• Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

  Stanley Kubrick

  Learning, Thinking, Looks

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• In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by the words they use. Writing begins with language, and it is in that initial choosing, as one sifts through the wayward lushness of our wonderful mongrel English, that choice of vocabulary and grammar and tone, the selection on the palette, that determines who's sitting at that desk. Language creates the writer's attitude toward the particular story he's decided to tell.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Attitude, Writing, Vocabulary

  Donald E. Westlake (2014). “The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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