Combination Quotes - Page 6

• Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

  Leo Ornstein

  Thinking, Together, Lines

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• I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.

  Placido Domingo

  Color, Voice, Singing

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• Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

  Josiah Warren

  Mistake, Firsts, Committed

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• Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.

  William F. Longgood

  Dream, Powerful, Dedication

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• You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

  Evan Parker

  Philosophy, Weakness, Ads

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• Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.

  Larry Holmes

  Sparring Partner, Fighter, Muhammad

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• The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

  Thomas Malthus

  Rich, Economy, Poor

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.55, Penguin UK

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• Muhammad Ali could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

  Larry Holmes

  Moving, Hands, Missing

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• Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1426, Delphi Classics

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• Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Discovery, Serendipity, Today

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• Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Form, Results

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.23, Advaita Ashrama

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• The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Mean, Play, Soul

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Matter, Form, Results

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.447, Manonmani Publishers

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• ... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Exercise, Imagination, Chess

  Siegbert Tarrasch (1935). “The Game of Chess”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in all probability it is a combination of the three factors listed above: the increasing number of vaccines, the large amount of mercury, and the inherent danger of the triple vaccine.....The MMR vaccine is also especially suspect because laboratories in England, Ireland, and Japan have found evidence of MMR vaccine viruses in the intestinal tracts of autistic children, but not in control group, non-autistic children.

  Bernard Rimland

  Children, Japan, Vaccines

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• Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.

  Mark Taimanov

  Play, Elements, Opponents

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• The creation of all those symbols and logotypes which are an ever more striking feature of the world in which we live calls for a new and fresh approach to lettering in the part of the designer. In these logotypes the combination of letters can be more or less obvious; but only deliberately contrived encounters of elements and confrontations of values can lead beyond the letters to new forms of expression.

  Armin Hofmann

  Expression, Encounters, Elements

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• The best way to think about anarchism is as a combination of three levels. On the one hand, the sort of instinctual revulsion against forms of inequality in power; on the other hand, a reappraisal of what one is already doing in egalitarian relations; and then the projection of these principles on all sorts of relations.

  David Graeber

  Thinking, Hands, Levels

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Foundation, Essentials

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.53

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• I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Running, Caring, Thinking

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• No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Attitude, Greatness, Men

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• The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in contemporary decoration. I don't care how good the designer is, I am sure that he [or she] would rahter have a person with definite ideas rahter than have to work with a negative figure as a client.

  Van Day Truex

  Ideas, Design, Negative

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• ... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination".

  Raymond Keene

  Farewell, Chess, Opinion

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• Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'

  Richard Reti

  Moving, Chess, Lovers

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• I play chess about four hours a day in training camp. You have to decide what move to use, or what combination of moves. I think less when I box because the reaction time is a lot quicker, but some people call me the chess boxer because they say I think too much in the ring. I take my time and they don't see the action they want. Some boxers just go in there and just throw punches and hope to win.

  Lennox Lewis

  Sports, Moving, Winning

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