Formulas Quotes - Page 21

• Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.

  Graham Collier

  Artist, Perspective, Way

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• A Light exists in Spring
  Not present on the Year
  At any other period -
  When March is scarcely here
  A Color stands abroad
  On Solitary Fields
  That Science cannot overtake
  But Human Nature feels.
  
  It waits upon the Lawn,
  It shows the furthest Tree
  Upon the furthest Slope you know
  It almost speaks to you.
  
  Then as Horizons step
  Or Noons report away
  Without the Formula of sound
  It passes and we stay -
  
  A quality of loss
  Affecting our Content
  As Trade had suddenly encroached
  Upon a Sacrament.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Loss, Color

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1084, Delphi Classics

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• There is a magic formula for resolving conflicts. It is this: Have as your objective the resolving of the conflict, not the gaining of advantage. There is a magic formula for avoiding conflicts. It is this: Be concerned that you do not offend, not that you are not offended.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Magic, Conflict, Advantage

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.30, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away,Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay:A quality of loss Affecting our content.

  Emily Dickinson

  Loss, Quality, Sound

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.613, Harvard University Press

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• The experts spent a great deal of time and study working out a formula which would be fair to every State and fair to every county and fair to every child, and would put the education dollar where that dollar is needed most, now.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Children, Work Out

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• A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Work, Men, Thinking

  Eugene O'Neill, Mark W. Estrin (1990). “Conversations with Eugene O'Neill”, p.36, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone, which will live the Christian life in you. Embrace a formula or a list in order to "live the Christian life," and you are doomed to frustration.

  Gene Edwards

  Christian, Father, Frustration

  Gene Edwards (1991). “The secret to the Christian life: have we overlooked the main point?”, Christian Books Pub House

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• Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.

  Dave Grohl

  Two, Years, Signatures

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Oneness, Humanity, May

  "The Titanic’s Forgotten 'Survivor'” by Rainn Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.

  Chad Kroeger

  Mathematical, Happenings

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• Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Heart, Trying

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.119, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.

  Christiane Northrup

  Baby, Children, Believe

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• A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition, and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Expression, Ideas, Lazy

  "Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., 318 U.S. 54". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. February 1, 1943.

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• Еach song is like starting over. Because somehow, no song's formula works for another. And that's the beauty of it all. Each song's destiny is embedded in its DNA. And our job is to reveal it.

  David First

  Song, Jobs, Destiny

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.

  Debbie Harry

  Thinking, Creating Life, Answers

  "Platinum Blondie". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2017.

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• No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve to throw all those things overboard.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  School, Overboard, Should

  "Current Literature, Volume 46". Book by Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Current Literature Publishing Company, p. 192, 1909.

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• After I tasted success with erotic thrillers, a time came when I was being offered only films belonging to that genre. The industry loves repeating a success formula, and the audience had formed a certain image of mine in their minds.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Erotic, Mind, Film

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• If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

  Albert Einstein

  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Torn, Foreseen

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

  Claude Debussy

  Airplane, Victory, Progress

  "Music in History: The Evolution of an Art". Book by Howard Decker McKinney and William Robert Anderson, 1957.

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• Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

  Frank Oski

  Medicine, Feeding, Informed Consent

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• Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. And this impulse may be harmless, when it is genuine. But what are we to say when we see the formulas of heroic self-deception made use of by unheroic self-indulgence?

  Upton Sinclair

  Fate, Animal, Men

  "The Profits of Religion : An Essay in Economic Interpretation". Book by Upton Sinclair, Introductory, "Bootstrap-lifting", 1918.

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• I think for us - the Weinstein name, the Miramax name - they've both become synonymous with brands. We have a real winning formula when it comes to championing a different kind of movie, and I think the audience trusts us.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Real, Winning, Thinking

  "Exclusive Interview: Harvey Weinstein, on ‘The Intouchables,’ His Career, and What Comes Next". Fandango Interview, weinsteinco.com. July 12, 2012.

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• The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Spring, Soul, Vision

  Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The Progress of a Biographer”

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• Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Heartbroken, Catholic, Dogma

  ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1910). “SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON”

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• I describe it ( the new aesthetics) 'radically': I say aesthetics = human being. That is a radical formula. I set the idea of aesthetics directly in the context of human existence, and then I have the whole problem in the hand, them I have not a special problem, I have a "holography" (reacting on a former suggestion of the public as a slight joke, fh) I don't know exactly what a holography is.. (1973

  Joseph Beuys

  Hands, Ideas, Special

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