Application Quotes - Page 4

• I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Giving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

  Howard Nemerov

  Class, Literature, Serious

  Howard Nemerov (1981). “Journal of the Fictive Life”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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• The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.

  Victor Francis Hess

  Strong, Energy, May

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• We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Sympathy, Philosophy, Sensual

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• The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

  William Bligh

  Navy, Too Much, Voyages

  William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.2, BoD – Books on Demand

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• It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Effort, Energy, Ministry

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• What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Order, Done, Want

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• As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

  David Parnas

  Real, Learning, Insomnia

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• Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

  William Weld

  Government, Purpose, Highest

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• From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

  Johan Huizinga

  Public Opinion, Looks, Demand

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• There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Pregnancy, Intuition, Mastery

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

  Bob Black

  Sea, Law, Use

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• Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Healing, Force

  "The Edgar Cayce Remedies". Book by William A. McGarey, p.16, 1983.

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• Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.

  Humphry Davy

  Knowledge, Science, Advancement

  Sir Humphry Davy (1812). “Elements of Chemical Philosophy”, p.54

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• The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application.

  Bob Lewis

  Technology, Hype, Three

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• I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Preaching, Approach

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, School, Looks

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 201.

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• There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

  Jimmy Page

  Rocks, Ice, Genius

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Giving, Promise, Climate

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• From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent agent in the supplying of man's commercial and industrial needs... The electronic amplifier tube now underlies the whole art of communications, and this in turn is at least in part what has made possible its application to a dozen other arts. It was a great day for both science and industry when they became wedded through the development of the electronic amplifier tube.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Art, Communication, Night

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• To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.

  Alan Watts

  Wise, Technology, Men

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• The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot.

  Ezra Pound

  Thinking, Order, Law

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• But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? In this dark period of loss, did I need any justification for learning Italian other than that it was the only thing I could imagine bringing me any pleasure right now?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loss, Dark, Italian

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

  David O. McKay

  Character, Noble, Development

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• There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.

  Scott Adams

  Color, Ideas, Looks

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