Degrees Quotes - Page 8

• The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

  Walter Lippmann

  Mistake, Errors, Study

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.157, Harvard University Press

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• After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

  Paul Nurse

  Weakness, Interviews, Language

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• I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

  Sara Paretsky

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wings, Feet, Progress

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.273

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• Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

  Tadao Ando

  Connections, Architecture, Reason

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• The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

  Paul de Man

  Writing, Agents, Action

  Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.152, Routledge

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• There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Quality, Possessing

  Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee

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• The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.

  Paul Volcker

  Moving, Communication, Differences

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• When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

  Tom Daschle

  Majority, Minorities, Agendas

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• Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Philosophy, Wings, People

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• No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Differences, Sovereign, States

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• In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

  Herbert Read

  Coherence, Evolution, Social

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

  Alfred Marshall

  Differences, Kind, Economic

  Alfred Marshall (1895). “Principles of Economics”

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• Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Boston, Practice, Hypocrisy

  Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens ...”, Harcourt

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• Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

  Chetan Bhagat

  Punjabis, Marble

  Chetan Bhagat (2009). “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”, p.146, Sandesh S

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• The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.

  Ada Lovelace

  Expression, Numbers, Musical

  "Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage". Book by L.F. Menabrea. Scientific Memoirs (Richard Taylor): 694, 1842.

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• I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.

  Brian Selznick

  School, Rhode Island, Islands

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• To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mean, World, Consciousness

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• People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don’t know any other single factor that affects our health - for better and for worse - to such a strong degree.

  Dean Ornish

  Lonely, Strong, People

  "Dean Ornish Talks Lifestyle As Treatment At NYC’s Integrative Healthcare Symposium". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 12, 2012.

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• Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Political Revolution, Long

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “Lincoln Speeches”, p.52, Penguin

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• Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

  Steven Pressfield

  Resistance, Indicators

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.40, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you're drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.

  Dave Gibbons

  Jobs, Character, Drawing

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• Put not your trust in new leaders, better systems, new organisations or regulatory reorganisation. They may well be good and necessary, but will to some degree fail.

  Justin Welby

  Leader, Reorganisation, May

  "Pope Francis gives first Easter Sunday sermon as thousands gather in St Peter's Square" by Steve White, www.mirror.co.uk. March 31, 2013.

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• I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.

  Abraham Verghese

  Country, Thinking, Men

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