Rigor Quotes

• Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Sex, Rigor Mortis

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• Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Obstacles, Destroyed

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• Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

  Howard Schultz

  Business, Discipline, Intuition

  Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon (2012). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul”, p.309, Rodale

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• Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.

  Oliver DeMille

  Exercise, Thinking, Consistency

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• Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.

  Gary A. Klein

  Communication, Creativity, Imagination

  Gary A. Klein (2017). “Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions”, p.269, MIT Press

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• Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Strong, Children

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.101, Ballantine Books

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• The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.

  James C. Collins

  Keys, Order, People

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• What gets projects done for me is not inspiration. It's curiosity and rigor.

  Andrew Zuckerman

  Inspiration, Curiosity, Done

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• One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

  Emile Chartier

  Inspirational, Self Respect, World

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• There is no rigorous definition of rigor.

  Morris Kline

  Science, Definitions

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• Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof.

  David Hilbert

  Believe, Math, Errors

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• A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.

  Alexander Hamilton

  People, Mind, Essentials

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• An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

  Edmund Burke

  Arms, Oppression, Extremes

  Edmund Burke (2008). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: On Conciliation with America; Security of the Independence of Parliament; on Mr. Fox's East India”, p.323, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

  Carole Maso

  Writing, Two, Brain

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• Rigor is always appropriate when investing in markets, whatever the ultimate conclusions may be.

  Robert Rubin

  Investing, May, Conclusion

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• Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

  George Chapman

  Hatred, Too Much, Doe

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• Really believe in yourself, and that no matter what anyone says to you, if you really have a dream and the passion - go for it! If you're willing to go through the rigors to get it, it will happen. It may not happen in your timeframe, but it will happen. I'm living proof of that. I was once on the other end of the spectrum, and now I'm living my dream. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

  Criss Angel

  Dream, Believe, Passion

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• If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Sleep, Law

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Winter's Tale: A Broadview Internet Shakespeare Edition”, p.109, Broadview Press

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• Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

  Albert Einstein

  Angel, Intellectual, Study

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.3, Princeton University Press

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• It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

  Gaston Caperton

  School, Anchors, Students

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• A ground plan is important in terms of its rigor. If your plan is soggy and weak, your production will be soggy and weak.

  David G. Hays

  Important, Theatre, Weak

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• I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something that I'm afraid takes incredibly hard work and we live in an age in which hard work is if not actively deprecated or denigrated it is run away from or ignored.

  Stephen Fry

  Running, Spiritual, Kindness

  "The Importance of Unbelief". bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Missing, Bows, Bent

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• Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and I do mean males in white coats who spin dials and wait for numbers to appear.

  Richard Lewontin

  Mean, Men, White

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.

  Antonin Artaud

  Determination, Decision, Intention

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.101, Grove Press

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