Surveys Quotes - Page 10

• Completing a large or difficult survey can be a very satisfying thing, especially if there have been hurdles or setbacks along the way. In our work, we get to "tick" off jobs quite often, so the sense of completion can also be rewarding.

  Mark Mason

  Jobs, Way, Tick

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.

  Ouida

  Christian, Believe, Humble

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.

  Wallace Stevens

  Hands, Giving, Gold

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.90, Univ of California Press

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• I am monarch of all I survey,
  My right there is none to dispute,
  From the centre all round to the sea,
  I am lord of the fowl and the brute.

  William Cowper

  Sea, Fowl, Royalty

  1782 Poems,'Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez'.

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• A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

  Germaine Greer

  Marriage, Clever, Husband

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• There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

  John Ruskin

  Age, Needs, Thorough

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• When I survey the wondrous cross
  On which the Prince of Glory died,
  My richest gain I count but loss,
  And pour contempt on all my pride.

  Isaac Watts

  Humility, Pride, Loss

  1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 'Crucifixion to the World, by the Cross of Christ'.

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• Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them in our surveys of general history, but their discovery is the glory of historical research. History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our present.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Past, Sight, Discovery

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• The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Focus, News

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• All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Simple, Greatness, Expression

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.4

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• In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Country, Europe, Food Culture

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• A new survey reveals that women would rather give up sex than give up the remote control for the TV. Men, on the other hand, would be willing to have sex with the remote for the TV.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Sex, Giving Up

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• San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start overnight. We don't have to wait for budgets to be passed, surveys to be made, political wheelings and dealings ... for it takes no money ... It takes no compromising to give the people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

  Harvey Milk

  Rights, San Francisco, Numbers

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• Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough.

  Arne Duncan

  Teaching, Thinking, Long

  "Teacher Pay Study Asks the Wrong Question, Ignores Facts, Insults Teachers" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2011.

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• With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.

  Daniel Ek

  People, Advice, Networking

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• I've said it before and I'll say it again. The U.S. Geological Survey has told me that the proven potential for oil in Alaska alone is greater than the proven reserves in Saudi Arabia.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Alaska, Oil

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• My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

  Jim Fowler

  Father, Soil, Scientist

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• A new survey indicates that Obama supporters love iPhones. So if you have an iPhone, chances are you are going to be supporting President Obama. In a related story, if you support Governor Chris Christie from New Jersey, chances are you love IHOP.

  David Letterman

  Obama Supporters, Iphone, President

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• There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Real, Italian

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• Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying. Make shoes, weed cabbages, survey land, keep house, make ice-cream, sell cake, climb a telephone pole. Nay, be a lightning-rod peddler or a book agent, before you set your heart upon it that you shall write for a living.... Living? It is more likely to be dying by your pen; despairing by your pen; burying hope and heart and youth and courage in your ink-stand.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Weed, Book, Teaching

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• We of the third sphere are unable to look at Europe or at Asia as they may survey each other. Wherever we go, across Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre.' Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Travel, Europe, Looks

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• It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.

  Bertrand Russell

  Heart, Skills, Training

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.131, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Air, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.103, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today.

  Charles Simic

  Today, Literature, Influence

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• Readers, on the other hand, have at least 7.5 books going all the time. Actually, the number of books a reader takes on is usually directly related to the number of bathrooms he has in his home and office. I am working on a survey that will show that, over a lifetime, readers are in bathrooms seven years and three months longer than nonreaders.

  Calvin Miller

  Book, Home, Hands

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