Application Quotes - Page 13

• No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Succeed

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.45, Applewood Books

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• Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

  Lauren Willig

  Knitting, Manners, Needles

  Lauren Willig (2011). “The Orchid Affair: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.299, Penguin

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• There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Errors, Facts

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.16, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education, is a certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of his force; the training is partly the clearing away of obstacles, partly the direct application of effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teacher, Men

  Henry Adams (2008). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I've always learned on-the-job, in real time. A problem comes up; I research it, and try to solve it. You can't study to be an entrepreneur; you have to develop those skills day in day out. All entrepreneurial experiences are related, whether you're selling worm poop to Wal-Mart or a grade tracking application to the public elementary school system. In the end, it's all very similar.

  Tom Szaky

  Jobs, Business, Real

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• There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application.

  Lord Kelvin

  Mistake, Soul, Practicals

  Lecture on "Electrical Units of Measurement" (3 May 1883) in "The Life of Lord Kelvin" by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, 1910.

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• When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years.

  Heinz-Otto Peitgen

  Impact, Years, Important

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• There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.

  Charles de Saint-Evremond

  Inspiring, Ingenuity, Passages

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• The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Lists, Process

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• Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Education, Maturity

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• Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.

  Jerry Bridges

  Cutting, Two, Broken

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• The supreme application of human attention is to be a vessel to carry awe.

  Etsko Schuitema

  Attention, Awe, Humans

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• At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level.

  Bill Gates

  Keys, Next Level, Tools

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• Everyone on this planet needs to be made aware that for several years now I have met and keep meeting people who no longer have AIDS, cancer, and almost any other disease you can think of, due to the continual and correct application of oxygen therapies.

  Ed McCabe

  Cancer, Thinking, Years

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• My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel--not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.

  Clara Barton

  Home, Writing, Men

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• There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.

  Samuel Johnson

  Determination, Focus, Mind

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.205

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• In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Violence, Possibility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.71, Rajpal & Sons

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• It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you couldn't make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM said, "Oh yeah, this stuff is good."

  Larry Ellison

  Leadership, Space, People

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• The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

  George Polya

  Knowledge, Math, Principles

  George Pólya (1948). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more particular application. The power of drawing, modeling, and using colors, is very properly called the language of the art.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Color, Drawing

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”

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• It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half of our life. Study, application, industry, enthusiasm while we are young usually enable us to enjoy life when we grow older. But unless we toil and strive and earn all we can in the first half, the second half of our life is liable to bring disappointment, discomfort, distress. The time to put forth effort is when we are most able to do it, namely, in the years of our greatest strength. The law of compensation hasn't ceased to function.

  B. C. Forbes

  Disappointment, Indulge In, Years

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• The strategic stimulus to economic development in Schumpeter's analysis is innovation, defined as the commercial or industrial application of something new---a new product, process or method of production, a new market or source of supply, a new form of commercial, business or financial organization.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Organization, Innovation, Analysis

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.19, Transaction Publishers

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• Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Art, Long, Desire

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• The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly an apprehension of the intimate, usable power of God is growing among us, and a growing recognition of the only worth-while application of that power-in the improvement of the world.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Religious, Teaching, Mind

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.322, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, Science, Men

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