Primaries Quotes - Page 10

• Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

  Aristotle

  Essence, Substance, Study

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• My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Body, Process

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• For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.

  Mabel Elsworth Todd

  Life, Men, Emotional

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• It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in a safe environment, to be able to work and provide for themselves, to have access to good public health and to have sound educational opportunities for their children.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Educational, Opportunity

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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• The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, World, Absence

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006.

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• The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Country, Political, Middle East

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• Building a mission and building a business go hand-in-hand. It is true that the primary thing that makes me excited about what we're doing is the mission, but I also think, from the very beginning, we've had this healthy understanding which is that we need to do both.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Hands, Understanding

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• I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Bridges, Bird, Environmental

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• The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Socialist Government, People, Black

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• No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family tree. Youth can participate in proxy baptisms. They can also help the older generation work with computers. Parents can relate stories of their lives to their posterity. Worthy adult members can hold a temple recommend and perform temple ordinances for their own kin.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Children, Tree, Parent

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• Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.

  Bill Gates

  Function, Customers, Values

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• My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.

  Steve Wozniak

  Iphone, Phones, Wish

  "Even Woz Thinks the Android Bests the iPhone" by Dan Lyons, www.thedailybeast.com. January 14, 2012.

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• The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents-the talks, the games, the family activities and the arguments through which much of the child's learning takes place and his character is formed.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Lying, Character

  Urie BRONFENBRENNER (1979). “The Ecology of Human Development”, p.242, Harvard University Press

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• I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Believe, Thinking, Doubt

  Peter F. Hamilton (2009). “Pandora's Star”, p.645, Pan Macmillan

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• The primary benefit of a vegan diet is that the removal of animal products usually necessitates a higher amount of nutrient-rich plant produce. The cons of a vegan diet could be the inclusion of too much heavily processed food, including seitan and isolated soy protein, flour, sweeteners and oils.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Animal, Oil, Soy

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• Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

  Gary Bauer

  Believe, Government, Empathy

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• The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Climate, Faces, Crystals

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.

  Eugenie Scott

  School, Exercise, Thinking

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• You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model.  Your primary influence is the environment you create.

  Peter Senge

  Commitment, Nudge Nudge, Role Models

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• Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike, and cultureless. If we look back we find that it is synonymous with life itself.

  Oswald Spengler

  Running, Animal, Men

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Aphorisms”

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• It's interesting to see how acoustic guitars are emerging as a primary instrument once again ... reminds me very much of what Jim Messina and I were doing back then. You can't get too far away from an acoustic guitar

  Kenny Loggins

  Music, Guitar, Interesting

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• A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting high-cost capital and finished goods to those countries. Continuation of this kind of prosperity requires continuation of the relative gap between developed and underdeveloped countries - it means keeping poor people poor. Increasingly, the impoverished masses are understanding that the prosperity of the developed countries and of the privileged minorities in their own countries is founded on their poverty.

  Philip Agee

  Country, Mean, People

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• I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.

  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  Believe, Ideas, Alive

  Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books

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• The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.

  George Muller

  Soul, Firsts, Lord

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• I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not, how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man may be nourished...I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God and to meditation on it.

  George Muller

  Reading, Men, Giving

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