Rigor Quotes

• Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Sex, Rigor Mortis

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• Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Obstacles, Destroyed

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• Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

  Howard Schultz

  Business, Discipline, Intuition

  Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon (2012). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul”, p.309, Rodale

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• Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.

  Oliver DeMille

  Exercise, Thinking, Consistency

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• What gets projects done for me is not inspiration. It's curiosity and rigor.

  Andrew Zuckerman

  Inspiration, Curiosity, Done

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• Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Strong, Children

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.101, Ballantine Books

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• Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.

  Gary A. Klein

  Communication, Creativity, Imagination

  Gary A. Klein (2017). “Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions”, p.269, MIT Press

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• The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.

  James C. Collins

  Keys, Order, People

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• One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

  Emile Chartier

  Inspirational, Self Respect, World

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• There is no rigorous definition of rigor.

  Morris Kline

  Science, Definitions

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• Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof.

  David Hilbert

  Believe, Math, Errors

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• A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.

  Alexander Hamilton

  People, Mind, Essentials

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• An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

  Edmund Burke

  Arms, Oppression, Extremes

  Edmund Burke (2008). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: On Conciliation with America; Security of the Independence of Parliament; on Mr. Fox's East India”, p.323, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Rigor is always appropriate when investing in markets, whatever the ultimate conclusions may be.

  Robert Rubin

  Investing, May, Conclusion

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• Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

  George Chapman

  Hatred, Too Much, Doe

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• Really believe in yourself, and that no matter what anyone says to you, if you really have a dream and the passion - go for it! If you're willing to go through the rigors to get it, it will happen. It may not happen in your timeframe, but it will happen. I'm living proof of that. I was once on the other end of the spectrum, and now I'm living my dream. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

  Criss Angel

  Dream, Believe, Passion

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• If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Sleep, Law

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Winter's Tale: A Broadview Internet Shakespeare Edition”, p.109, Broadview Press

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• If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Fall, Yield, Mind

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• It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

  Gaston Caperton

  School, Anchors, Students

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• How to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education.

  Ralph W. Gerard

  Imagination, Challenges, Teach

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• A ground plan is important in terms of its rigor. If your plan is soggy and weak, your production will be soggy and weak.

  David G. Hays

  Important, Theatre, Weak

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• Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and I do mean males in white coats who spin dials and wait for numbers to appear.

  Richard Lewontin

  Mean, Men, White

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• Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Wish, Firsts

  "Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious".

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• Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

  Albert Einstein

  Angel, Intellectual, Study

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.3, Princeton University Press

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• The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book." There is surely something to that. But it wasn't just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder wasn't the intellectual rigor you get from studying the Talmud. It was the practical intelligence and savvy you get from watching your father sell aprons on Hester Street.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Children, Father, Book

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.230, Penguin UK

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