Degrees Quotes - Page 28

• If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.

  Brian Tracy

  Different, Want, Ships

  Twitter post from Jun 18, 2014

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• Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

  Laura Riding

  Consciousness

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• There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Creeps, Certain

  "The new Jasper Fforde: a brave new bookworld!". www.wired.com. February 23, 2011.

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• The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drawing, Wish, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.88, 谷月社

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• We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perception, Taste, Fields

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.88, 谷月社

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• It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others.

  Napoleon Hill

  College, Rights, Want

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.107, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.

  Chuck Jones

  Expectations, Results, Boxes

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• Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.

  David Simon

  Book, Mean, League

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• There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Moral Development, Civilization

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• I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

  Daniel Suarez

  Age, Novelists, Literature

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• College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Jobs, College, Feet

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• In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

  Anne Fortier

  Ideas, Training, Way

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

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• The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It throws new and interesting people in one's path. There is a dynamic and an energy in cities which is diametric to the life-forces of the forest.
  Still the cabin is the wellspring, the source, the hub of my existence. It gives me tranquility, a closeness of nature and wildlife, good health and fitness, a sense of security, the opportunity for resourcefulness, reflection and creative thinking.

  Anne LaBastille

  Good Life, Reflection, Opportunity

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• I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

  Shane Carruth

  School, Math, Texas

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• And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen makes you feel like you possess a degree of control that you don't have.

  Michelle Hodkin

  Events, Negative, Coincidence

  Michelle Hodkin (2013). “The Evolution of Mara Dyer”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.

  JWoww

  Art, Jobs, Queens

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• I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.

  Ted Baillieu

  Thinking, Climate, Speculation

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• If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

  Socrates

  World, Ruins, Ingredients

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• Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.

  Lance Morrow

  Moving, Years, Goal

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• As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

  Charles Dickens

  Shadow, Awful, Gathering

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Books and Stories [A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, A Christmas Tree, The Cricket on the Hearth, etc] (Book House)”, p.207, Book House

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• There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Pride, Men

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Sunday Under Three Heads: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with body temperatures of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, do not normally create a 197.2 degree under-the-cover oven.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Two, People

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• Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will rise until it matches the 3,000-degree rarified outer layers of the expanded Sun.... But not to worry. We will surely go extinct for some other reason long before this scenario unfolds.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sky, Long, Worry

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• In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.

  Louis Dudek

  Writing, Fake, Revision

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• The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.

  David Nicholls

  Wife, Facts, Impossible

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us: A Novel”, p.17, Harper Collins

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