Formulas Quotes - Page 33

• To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Simplicity, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.369, Penguin

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• There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ... don't offer us the answer. They do offer us approaches, ways of thinking, possibilities we can adapt, and hope that might generate in us wholly new ideas.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Teacher, Simple, Thinking

  Frances Moore Lappé, Paul Martin Du Bois (1994). “The quickening of America: rebuilding our nation, remaking our lives”, Jossey-Bass

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• Keeping the mind open to new ideas, not being too anxious about success, putting 100% effort and meditation is the formula for entrepreneurs.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspiring, Ideas, Entrepreneur

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• The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.

  Hubert M. Blalock

  Funny, Humorous, Science

  Hubert M. Blalock (1972). “Social statistics”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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• We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.

  Peter Greenaway

  Lying, Secret, Statistics

  "Dear Boullée". A short film, a companion to 'The Belly of an Architect', 1987.

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• The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

  Auguste Comte

  Order, Goal, Progress

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• But I hate the way our identity has changed. We used to establish the run and wear teams down and try not to make mistakes, and we’d rely on our defense to keep us in the game and make big plays to put us in position to win. Kyle Orton might not be the flashiest quarterback, but the guy is a winner, and that formula worked for us. I hate to say it, but that’s the truth.

  Brian Urlacher

  Running, Hate, Mistake

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• My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Wise, Writing, Trying

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• Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.

  Tom Kristensen

  Winning, Race, Average

  "Off the clock: Tom Kristensen interview". Interview with Eric Thompson, www.nzherald.co.nz. July 23, 2011.

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• I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.

  Chad Kroeger

  Artist, Cobain, Strange

  "Our Hate Has Saved Nickelback" by Ian Crouch, www.newyorker.com. November 20, 2014.

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• The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Determination, Past, America

  "Thomas Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum Say American Greatness Is Slipping and Propose Fixes". Interview with Tonu Doukopil, www.thedailybeast.com. September 09, 2011.

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• This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, Unique, Law

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Thinking, People, Mosaics

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• If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

  Ryan Tedder

  Song, Unique, Talking

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• Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality. The summation of this indefinable net of your feeling, knowledge and experience. Take colour as a totality of relations within a framecolour is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.

  Ernst Haas

  Thinking, Keys, Personality

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• For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause, the face of day darkened with the blackness of the crimes perpetrated in its name.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Blood, Years

  Freedom from Religion foundation profile, ffrf.org.

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• I think as a 20-year-old you expect life to always be easy. You get given a good hand and the chance to race in Formula One. You think the driver can make the difference, can make up for everything else within the team. But that is not the case. You are racing in such a competitive sport so that doesn't happen.

  Jenson Button

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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• The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.

  Jenson Button

  Car, Speed, Force

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• I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck on a pin and put in a glass case. I want to see the sunlight on its wings as it flits from flower to flower and I don't care a rap what its Latin name may be.

  Jacob August Riis

  Photography, Latin, Flower

  Jacob August Riis (1901). “The Making of an American”

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• Is it a spiral of water in the tragic gleam of a revolver, an egg, a glistening arc or the floodgate of reason, a keen ear attuned to a mineral hiss, or a turbine of algebraic formulas? (On Man Ray's first photograms, 1921.)

  Tristan Tzara

  Men, Eggs, Water

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• Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

  Desi Arnaz

  Successful, Elements, Television

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Photography, Jobs, Thinking

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• Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Knowing, Car, Giving

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.

  Bill Keller

  War, Simple, Israel

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• The greatest thing about form and convention is that it saves you from having to reinvent the wheel. Now, whether you mount the wheel to a horse carriage or a Formula One racing car, make it plain or give it spinning rims, those are all craft decisions. But the fact of the wheel remains: it will turn if you set it down. That's what I mean about the beauty of the gifts genre can offer.

  Chris Abani

  Horse, Mean, Giving

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chris Abani". Interview with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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