Thorough Quotes - Page 8

• Presently, my understanding of the fundamental principles of the theory of high-intensity training is thorough and complete - not two plus two equals three-and-a-half, but two plus two equals four! Heretofore, I would only occasionally have clients gain 10 to 20 pounds in a month or 30 to 40 pounds in three to four months. Now such is no longer the exception , but the rule!

  Mike Mentzer

  Two, Understanding, Training

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• Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.

  Wendell Berry

  Military, Finals, Defeat

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.16, Counterpoint

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• The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made. His pride is in his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face and his obedience is to his orders. He has been called United States Marine.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Pride, Marine, Fighting

  T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.482, Open Road Media

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• In the first place, I'm pretty thorough about whom I choose. I instinctively look for the kind of actor who is going to be trusting. There are all kinds of insecure people out there called actors.

  Mike Leigh

  Insecure, People, Looks

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teacher, Believe, Reason

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• If you're a thorough professional, and they won't let you do a professional job, nobody's going to benefit from it. The people who produce it won't benefit. The people who buy it won't benefit from it. They're going to get a half-assed product.

  Jack Kirby

  Jobs, People, Benefits

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• Just as bank tellers need a thorough knowledge of legitimate currency in order to spot counterfeit bills, so Christians need a thorough knowledge of the Bible in order to spot bogus religious teachings. How grounded are you in the Scriptures? How deep are your theological roots? How capable are you of detecting false teachings?

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Religious, Teaching

  Charles R. Swindoll (1920). “Conquering Through Conflict”, W Publishing Group

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• Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.

  Andres Segovia

  Color, Thorough Knowledge, Special

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• Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul, the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the final result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough manipulation of their mind and soul.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Men, Political Opinions

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Defense, Process, Missiles

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• The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.

  John Locke

  Hands, Thorough Knowledge, Gentleman

  "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" by John Locke, (Sec. 94), 1693.

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• Very thorough in the rehearsal process but more in terms of just understanding the characters, understanding where the actors are at with discovering those characters for themselves, and just setting an overall emotional tone for the piece as opposed to necessarily getting things up on their feet or staging scenes.

  Kate Winslet

  Character, Emotional, Feet

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Self-mastery calls for thorough familiarity with one's mental and emotional strengths. And it calls for sustaining a commitment to personal growth - the understanding of what makes you tick as an individual - as well as personal development.

  Charles Garfield

  Commitment, Emotional, Self

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• The best thing about Sachin Tendulkar is that he's completely rooted, down to earth, and a thorough gentleman. He's probably the best thing to have happened to Indian cricket and maybe Indian sport as a whole.

  Sania Mirza

  Sports, Gentleman, Earth

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• Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Joy, Soul

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• Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye. And if we perceive no evident change and improvement, it would be better to leave it alone; learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it be wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Learning, Hands, Giving

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• Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.

  Andy Grove

  Competition, Warfare, Conventions

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• At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite sufficient unto himself; or, on the contrary, to be only a part of a whole, the organ of an organism? Briefly, is the division of labor, at the same time that it is a law of nature, also a moral rule of human conduct; and, if it has this latter character, why and in what degree?

  Emile Durkheim

  Character, Law, Division Of Labor

  "De la division du travail social (The Division of Labor in Society)". Book by Emile Durkheim (p. 41 in 1947 translation of George Simpson), 1893.

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• I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Thinking, College

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• The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Reform, Should, Radical

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• Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and exclusive, unified and systematic, and as an end in itself, the Christian response to postmodernism will be muted by the surrounding culture or will make illicit compromises with the truth-impoverished spirit of the age. The good news is that truth is still truth, that it provides a backbone for witness and ministry in postmodern times, and that God's truth will never fail.

  Douglas Groothuis

  Christian, Biblical, Views

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• I don't think it's a matter of going back and having a review of our process. Our process is about as thorough as there can be. Is it imperfect? Yes. Is there risk? Yes, but we start with the fact that we have an American that's being held hostage and that American's life is in danger and that's where we start. And then we proceed from there.

  Chuck Hagel

  Life, Thinking, Risk

  "Lawmakers defend failed hostage rescue mission in Yemen" By Sara Fischer, www.cnn.com. December 7, 2014.

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• For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two; eat one and drop the other.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Ice Cream, Two, Use

  Richard H. Axsom, David Platzker, Claes Oldenburg (1997). “Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg : a Catalogue Raisonné 1958-1996”, p.128, Hudson Hills

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• The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Careers, Political, Wish

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life's work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.

  John D. Rockefeller

  College, Men, Thinking

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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