Formal Quotes - Page 18

• Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Engineering, Jeans, Culture

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• Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

  Martin Filler

  Practice, Lasts, Architecture

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• What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present and pave the way to a better future. For example, if we delve more deeply into ancient Egyptian and African civilisations we will discover the humanistic elements that were prevalent in many areas of life. Women enjoyed a high status and rights, which they later lost when class patriarchal society became the prevalent social system.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Class, Rights, Way

  Nawal El Saadawi (1997). “The Nawal El Saadawi Reader”, Zed Books

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• When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk... may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.

  Jon Krakauer

  Passion, Men, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Sep 30, 2011

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• Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be treated as a semiformal occasion.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Should, Furious, Occasions

  "Darkly Dreaming Dexter".

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• A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.

  Charles Brent

  Prayer, Men, Hands

  Charles Henry Brent (1914). “With God in the World: A Series of Papers”

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• We had no churches, no religious organizations, no sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble to sing and pray; sometimes a smaller number, perhaps only two or three. The songs had a few words, but were not formal. The singer would occasionally put in such words as he wished instead of the usual tone sound. Sometimes we prayed in silence; sometimes each one prayed aloud; sometimes an aged person prayed for all of us. At other times one would rise and speak to us of our duties to each other and to Usen. Our services were short.

  Geronimo

  Song, Religious, Holiday

  "Geronimo: My Life".

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• Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Learning, Ballet

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• Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

  Ken Robinson

  Inspirational, Education, Believe

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• Morality, when formal, devours.

  Albert Camus

  Perseverance, Morality

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• Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

  Ezra Pound

  Kings, Men, Garden

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• More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Knowledge, Character

  The Rambler no. 60 (13 Oct. 1750)

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• The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics. Contemporary poets are inventing all kinds of wild, complex shapes for poetry, as we see. It's a wonderful time, less ego-centered.

  Anne Waldman

  Ego, Shapes, Stuff

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

  Dana Spiotta

  Coherence, Satisfaction, Authenticity

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• I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Training, Needs, World

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• With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What makes this book as important as anything published in the last decade is the irresistible music, the formal dexterity and the imaginative leaps she makes with metaphor and language in these simply stunning poems. This is a very, very important achievement.

  Kwame Dawes

  Book, Writing, America

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• Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him or her the framework for total truth, rooted in the Creator's existence and in the Bible's teaching, so that in each step of the formal learning process the student will understand what is true and what is false and why it is true or false.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Teaching, Giving

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• Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Tears, Repentance

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Sermons on Sin, Salvation, and Service”

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• The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

  Simon Sinek

  Office, Choices, Leader

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last Deluxe: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.66, Penguin

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• True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations, from the springtime hedge which seems already too full, while the purely formal imitation of varietyis but void and uniformity, that is, that which is most opposed to variety.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Real, Flower

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• The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln had scarcely any education. One had become the notable poet of the day; one the orator of the Gettsyburg Address. It was inevitable that Whitman as a poet should turn with a feeling of kinship to Lincoln, and even without any association or contact feel that Lincoln was his.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Spiritual, Feelings, Essentials

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• Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, finally, intelligible. The Oriental, on the other hand, has accepted his existence within a universe that would appear to be meaningless, to the rational Western mind, and has lived with this meaninglessness. Hence the artistic form that seems natural to the Oriental is one that is just as formless or formal, as irrational, as life itself.

  William Barrett

  Men, Hands, Greek

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• Ardent
  yet chill and formal,
  how I ache
  to tempt a chisel
  as a sculptor.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Art, Chill, Ache

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.338, New Directions Publishing

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• The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Life, Art, Perfection

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• Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Sunshine, Sunday, Air

  "Old Home Town". Book by Rose Wilder Lane, 1935.

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