Formal Quotes

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  Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Education

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 04, 2016

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• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Sad, Education

  "Conducting Meaningful Interpretation: A Field Guide for Success". Book by Alan E. Wilkinson, p. 154, 2006.

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• I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Garden, Environment

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• The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Motivation, Government

  Thomas Paine (1848). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.86

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• America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

  Paula Abdul

  Kids, America, Training

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• I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Body, Election, Debate

  "Countdown" with Keith Oldermann, www.nbcnews.com. January 7, 2005.

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• We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

  Philip Greenspun

  Jobs, School, Want

  "Philip Greenspun Answers". Slashdot Interview, tech.slashdot.org. April 27, 2000.

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• Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

  Philip Emeagwali

  School, Eight, Years

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• I've never been a big believer in formal education.

  Megan Fox

  Funny, Bigs, Believer

  Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. May 13, 2008.

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• Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Teaching, Joy, Use

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• In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Two, Historical, Trios

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• Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

  Francoise Sagan

  Art, Believe, Opposites

  "Françoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15". Interview with Blair Fuller and Robert B. Silvers, www.theparisreview.org. Autumn 1956.

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• 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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• My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

  Ann Druyan

  Math, Years, Training

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• Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

  Hans Hofmann

  Mean, Color, Creating

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• Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Character, Judging, Inquiry

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.224, 谷月社

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• A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

  Edward Sapir

  Age, Events, Legends

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.395, Univ of California Press

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• I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

  Alain de Botton

  Writing, Trying, Attention

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• In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Art, Quality, Impossible

  "Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets". Book by Joel Shatzky, ‎Michael Taub, p. 302, 1999.

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• At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

  George Carlin

  Party, Cooking Dinner, Bathroom

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.

  Leslie Caron

  Girl, Dancer

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• The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

  Simon Hoggart

  Party, Funeral, Dinner

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• Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.

  John Crowe Ransom

  New Year, Exercise, Years

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• I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

  Steven Cojocaru

  Men, Shallow Person, Political

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• I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

  Mark Strand

  Believe, Limits, Language

  Mark Strand (2000). “The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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