There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We need from every man who aspires to leadership-for himself and his company-a determination to undertake a personal program of self-development. Nobody… — Ralph J. Cordiner Copy Share Image
Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I dunno, when I started writing really I was like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Microsoft fears Intel is eventually going to create its own operating system and optimize its chips for its own OS, cutting Microsoft… — John C. Dvorak Copy Share Image
Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of… — Stanley Coren Copy Share Image
If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again...… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Dilbert: It took weeks but I've calculated a new theory about the origin of the universe. According to my calculations it didn't… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The soil of Palestine still enjoys her sabbaths, and only waits for the return of her banished children, and the application of… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless application… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a child I've had a passion for colors and a sixth sense and known how to use it.… — Leatrice Eiseman Copy Share Image
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature;… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Let's face it, the Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for the iPhone. That's why they've got… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
