Degrees Quotes - Page 13

• People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood. Sometimes it takes many years to reintegrate the personality structure that they gained when they first entered into this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Years, People

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• Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen has become, to a certain degree, institutionalized.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, School, Order

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• Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Nice, Light

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• You're responsible for your own character to a degree, because when it comes to the final draft of the script, you might say, "Well, I think maybe I could add this here, add that there." But I find that I write just as well for the other characters as I do for myself. I think.

  Charlie Day

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day". Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

  Moby

  Hubris

  "Moby Discusses His ISSUEs". Interview with Nell Alk, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to one ratio. But part of that is because I've worked on every screenplay, so I'm further along in the visual concept.

  Elia Kazan

  Circles, Directors, Full Circle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.

  Matt Frewer

  Girl, Teacher, Drama

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• Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netters art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

  David Bolinsky

  Art, School, Illustration

  "Lives of a cell, the 3-D version". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. March 14, 1007.

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• Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.

  Dan Savage

  Fidelity, Obsessed, Higher

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• Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.

  Jamais Cascio

  Should Have, Environmental, Requirements

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• Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.

  Rachel Gibson

  Who I Am, Pieces, Paper

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• With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

  Jeff Goodell

  Fall, Australia, Water

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• You think the weather is weird now? Just wait. A new MIT study, just published in a peer-reviewed journal, projects that the Earth could see warming of more than 9 degrees F by 2100 - more than twice earlier projections.

  Jeff Goodell

  Thinking, Weather, Waiting

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• I believe it is crucial to consider the degree to which one woman's possession of reproductive choice may actually depend on or deepen another woman's reproductive vulnerability.

  Rickie Solinger

  Believe, Choices, May

  Rickie Solinger (2002). “Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States”, p.7, Macmillan

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• There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Have Faith, Evolution

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.83, Criss Jami

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• A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.

  Brit Marling

  Movie, Thinking, Law

  "Brit Marling: The Breakout Indie Star Who’s Taking Us To “Another Earth” And Back Again". IFC Interview, www.ifc.com. July 20.

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• For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Needs, Cases

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.171, Cambridge University Press

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• Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

  Chetan Bhagat

  Punjabis, Marble

  Chetan Bhagat (2009). “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”, p.146, Sandesh S

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• The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.

  Ada Lovelace

  Expression, Numbers, Musical

  "Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage". Book by L.F. Menabrea. Scientific Memoirs (Richard Taylor): 694, 1842.

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• I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you're drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.

  Dave Gibbons

  Jobs, Character, Drawing

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• Put not your trust in new leaders, better systems, new organisations or regulatory reorganisation. They may well be good and necessary, but will to some degree fail.

  Justin Welby

  Leader, Reorganisation, May

  "Pope Francis gives first Easter Sunday sermon as thousands gather in St Peter's Square" by Steve White, www.mirror.co.uk. March 31, 2013.

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• To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.

  Archie Shepp

  Play, Numbers, People

  "A Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December 10, 1990.

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• If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

  Charlton Laird

  Study, Language, Human Nature

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• Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.

  Johann Peter Eckermann

  Conceited, Men, Perfection

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.277

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• My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.

  Jason Babin

  Team, Effort, Benefits

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