Study Quotes - Page 7

• My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich.

  Danny Gregory

  Art, Blessing, Drawing

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• When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beauty, Handsome, Be Good

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.380, Penguin

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• The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Real, Twenties, Inquiring

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages...it's a collaboration of ourselves and our ancestors, the result is a deeper understanding for individuals and in consequence, a broader culture for the nation.

  Christopher Tunnard

  Past, Understanding, Collaboration

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• Study and discipline are the prerequisite to any form of accomplishment. Unfortunately however, studying is much like paying taxes for most of us - we only do it when we have to. If you're serious about developing greatness in your life, study the lives of great men and women and follow their advice!

  Bob Proctor

  Greatness, Men, Discipline

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Feb 22, 2012

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• I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, World, Paganism

  "The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville; edited by Olivier Zunz and Alan S. Kahan, p. 229, 2002.

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• The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

  Harold Bloom

  Thinking, Doe, Literature

  "Harold Bloom, The Art of Criticism No. 1". Interview with Antonio Weiss. Issue 118, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1991.

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• This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in a brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. The numbers of the sections may be used as references in correcting manuscript.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Book, Practice, Numbers

  William Strunk Jr. (2015). “Elements of Style”, Lulu.com

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• Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject connected with her duty to God and her neighbor; was very truthful both in word and deed, very strict in her observance of the Sabbath - though the rest of the family were by no means particular in that respect - very diligent in her studies, respectful to superiors, and kind to inferiors and equals; and she was gentle, sweet-tempered, patient, and forgiving to a remarkable degree.

  Martha Finley

  Sweet, Children, Mean

  "Elsie Dinsmore".

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• In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Learning, Ends

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.78, Ravenio Books

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• Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Experience, Cherries

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.36, Random House

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• We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.

  Jack Nicholson

  Kissing, Drink, Social

  "Riffs on life, in the key of Jack". Interview with Rachel Abramowitz, articles.latimes.com. November 03, 2002.

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• Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.

  Efim Geller

  Moving, Play, Variation

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• NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

  Joanna Lumley

  Space, Skins, Giraffe

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• Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.

  Bob Filner

  Children, Purpose, Advertising

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• This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

  Albert Claude

  Mother, Appreciation, Agony

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• Whether your purpose for writing is artistic expression, communication with friends and family, the healing of the inner life, or achieving public recognition for your art - the foundation is the same: the claiming of yourself as an artist/writer and the strengthening of your writing voice through practice, study, and helpful response from other writers.

  Pat Schneider

  Art, Communication, Healing

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.22, Oxford University Press

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• I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work

  Jackson Pollock

  Long, Talent, Accomplished

  Jackson Pollock (2011). “American Letters: 1927-1947”, p.16, Polity

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• A new study found that Americans are exercising more than ever but still not losing much weight. Not good in fact, it's all I could think about on my jog to Dunkin' Donuts.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Exercise, Thinking, Weight

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• But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

  Orison Swett Marden

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.357, Cosimo, Inc.

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• This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.

  Richard Baxter

  Ends, Sanctification, Objects

  Richard BAXTER, Rev. William BROWN (M.D., Son of John Brown of Haddington.), Daniel WILSON (Bishop of Calcutta.) (1829). “The Reformed Pastor ... Revised and Abridged by the Rev. William Brown ... With an Introductory Essay, by the Rev. Daniel Wilson. [With a Portrait.]”, p.26

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• Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give this knowledge; is not theory, it is realization. Cleanse the dust from the mirror, purify your own mind, and in a flash you know that you are Brahman.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Mirrors, Dust

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3132, Manonmani Publishers

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• Well for everyone to make a study of astrology for, as indicated, while many individuals have set about to prove the astrological aspects and astrological survey enable one to determine future as well as the past conditions, these are well to the point where the individual understands that these act upon individuals because of their sojourn or correlation of their associations with the environs through which these are shown - see? Rather than the star directing the life, the life of the individual directs the courses of the stars, see?

  Edgar Cayce

  Stars, Past, Astrology

  "Planetary Influences & Sojourns".

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• Climate change is so big that people who study it.. and many do.. need to speak to it. They must present scientific papers, they must appear in public, they must speak to the media and we must hear their voices. In order to get policy right, policymakers.. governments.. need to make decisions based on sound science.

  Peter Garrett

  Government, Media, Order

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• Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Agreement, Matter, Fossils

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