Minors Quotes - Page 27

• I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

  Cobi Jones

  Finishing, Details, Attention

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• We've had such thorough training, we've had an excellent team on the ground. With the minor glitches that have occurred, we've been able to take care of them. And the teams on the ground are getting tons of incredible data.

  Laurel Clark

  Team, Data, Training

  "Shuttle crew takes break for CNN interview". Interview with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2003.

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• Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.

  Crystal Reed

  College, Psychology, Mind

  "Crystal Reed Talks TEEN WOLF, The Psychological Aspect of Season 3b, the Relationship Between Allison and Isaac, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 27, 2014.

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• I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences of my childhood being based around the piano. On piano, it is very easy to move between major and minor and to really see how it looks and to feel how it sounds.

  Andrew W.K.

  Moving, Piano, Keys

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready.

  Laurel Clark

  Eight, Preparation, Orbit

  "Shuttle crew takes break for CNN interview". Interview with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2003.

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• Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshipped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow.

  Lawrence Wright

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Renowned journalist throws the book at Scientology". Interview with Daniel Burke, www.washingtonpost.com. January 31, 2013.

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• For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

  Jane Austen

  Sports, Neighbor, Reviews

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• Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence.

  Harvey Penick

  Real, Golf, Matter

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• Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

  Charles Rosen

  Character, Artistic, Compromise

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• Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.

  Thomas Sowell

  Decision, Important, Social

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.30, Basic Books

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• If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes.

  George Perle

  Class, Tone, Twelve

  "The Listening Composer". Book by George Perle, p. 98, 1990.

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• On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

  Tommy Shaw

  Real, Keys, Guitar

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• By the English common law, her husband was her lord and master. He had the custody of her person, and of her minor children. He could 'punish her with astick no bigger than his thumb,' and she could not complain against him.

  Harriet Hanson Robinson

  Children, Husband, Women

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• If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Circles, Bars, Opinion

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don't try out. Besides, uh, I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart.

  Crash Davis

  Believe, Heart, Years

  "Fictional character: Crash Davis". "Bull Durham", 1988.

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• The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

  Wendy Beckett

  Art, Greatness, World

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• Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

  Agnes Repplier

  Attention, Way, Steps

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• Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Life, Children, Events

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• I am surprised at three things: 1. [A] man runs from death while death is inevitable. 2. One sees minor faults in others, yet overlooks his own major faults. 3. When there is any defect to one's cattle he tries to cure it, but does not cure his own defects.

  Umar

  Running, Men, Trying

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• Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car."

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  "Complaints and Grievances". Documentary, Comedy, 2001.

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• Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.

  Jim Rohn

  Needs, Emotion, Explosions

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 07, 2016

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• The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

  C. Wright Mills

  Knowledge, Frustration, Political Will

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings”, p.184, Univ of California Press

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• Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Priorities

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 19, 2016

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• That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.

  Marian McPartland

  Fall, Play, Feelings

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• If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

  Hans Kung

  Children, Wife, Temptation

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