Formal Quotes - Page 20

• Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Engineering, Jeans, Culture

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• Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

  Martin Filler

  Practice, Lasts, Architecture

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• The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.

  Peter Greenaway

  Attitude, Ambition, Character

  "Watching Water". Catalogue of the Exhibition in Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, 1993.

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• The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

  Mark Steyn

  Law, Embodiment, Moral

  Mark Steyn (2012). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.203, Regnery Publishing

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• What gets me excited by the process of making art is how unrelated elements get fused, which is a formal process. The content is the easy part. Putting it together in a way that's cohesive is the challenge.

  Jordan Wolfson

  Art, Challenges, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present and pave the way to a better future. For example, if we delve more deeply into ancient Egyptian and African civilisations we will discover the humanistic elements that were prevalent in many areas of life. Women enjoyed a high status and rights, which they later lost when class patriarchal society became the prevalent social system.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Class, Rights, Way

  Nawal El Saadawi (1997). “The Nawal El Saadawi Reader”, Zed Books

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• When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk... may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.

  Jon Krakauer

  Passion, Men, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Sep 30, 2011

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• Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Failure, Ignorance, Thinking

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• More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Knowledge, Character

  The Rambler no. 60 (13 Oct. 1750)

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• Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

  Ezra Pound

  Kings, Men, Garden

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• Morality, when formal, devours.

  Albert Camus

  Perseverance, Morality

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• Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

  Ken Robinson

  Inspirational, Education, Believe

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• Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Learning, Ballet

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• I hate formal stuff. I love looking like a doll and all that stuff and playing dress up, but when I'm home, sweat pants, t-shirt. When I'm in the studio, sweat pants, t-shirt.

  Nicki Minaj

  Hate, Home, Playing Dress Up

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• We had no churches, no religious organizations, no sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble to sing and pray; sometimes a smaller number, perhaps only two or three. The songs had a few words, but were not formal. The singer would occasionally put in such words as he wished instead of the usual tone sound. Sometimes we prayed in silence; sometimes each one prayed aloud; sometimes an aged person prayed for all of us. At other times one would rise and speak to us of our duties to each other and to Usen. Our services were short.

  Geronimo

  Song, Religious, Holiday

  "Geronimo: My Life".

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• A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.

  Charles Brent

  Prayer, Men, Hands

  Charles Henry Brent (1914). “With God in the World: A Series of Papers”

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• Later, I would ask Shaya to help me compose a formal response to Katrice's letter, something a long the lines of "I am the Thorn Queen. F*** Off.

  Richelle Mead

  Queens, Long, Lines

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Thorn Queen”, p.355, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

  Brooklyn Decker

  Friendship, Mom, Horse

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.

  Andrew Bird

  Play, Pieces, Way

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• This Being out of God cannot, by any means, be a limited, completed, and inert Being, since God himself is not such a dead Being, but, on the contrary, is Life; but it can only be a Power, since only a Power is the true formal picture or Schema of Life. And indeed it can only be the Power of realising that which is contained in itself a Schema.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Mean, Schemas, Realising

  "Outline of the Doctrine of Knowledge" by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, III, 1810.

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• Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once took the stage at Old Main and told the nation that if anyone did not believe the American principles of freedom and equality, that those principles were timeless and all-inclusive, they should go rip that page out of the Declaration of Independence.

  Barack Obama

  Rip, Believe, Men

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Humble, Anxiety, Secret

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant... Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre.

  Richard Aldington

  Writing, Pieces, Kind

  "Collected Poems". Book by Richard Aldington, Introduction, 1929.

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• Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

  Baker Brownell

  Art, Cosmos, Patterns

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• Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Perspective, Judgement, Intuition

  "The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning" by Henry Mintzberg, hbr.org. 1994.

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