Application Quotes · Page 6

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

— John Dewey

The main application of Pure Mathematics is to make you happy.

— Hendrik Lenstra

The Marxist outlook ... represents the most consistent and systematic application of the scientific outlook and method.

— Bob Avakian

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

— James Whistler

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails!

— Thomas Russell

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.

— Seth Godin

Technology, and applications of this technology, will continue to improve and evolve, providing unprecedented, global access to information, individuals, training, and opportunities.

— Maynard Webb

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is…

— William Hazlitt

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is…

— Toni Morrison

In a globalized world, one application can spread like wildfire and there's only one winning company, which means you have to invest…

— Douglas Leone

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to…

— Maureen Forrester

My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word,…

— Kevin Vanhoozer

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

— Theodore J. Hoover

If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those…

— Barack Obama

Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication?…

— Mike Nichols

The amount of our endurance is directly proportionate to the clarity of our vision, so the practical application is we need to…

— Rory Vaden

When the epistemologists' concept of consciousness first became popular, it seems to have been in part a transformed application of the Protestant…

— Gilbert Ryle

I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having…

— Dave Ulrich

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Will fluorine ever have practical applications? It is very difficult to answer this question. I may, however, say in all sincerity that…

— Henri Moissan

In early 2008, it was confirmed that there would be an opportunity to build applications for the iPhone. We were fortunate enough…

— Jeremy Stoppelman

In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is…

— Kate Millett

Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's…

— Allen W. Wood

I think technology is fantastic but maybe it's just developed too fast for us in real world applications. By the same token…

— Clint Mansell

The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the…

— Benjamin Graham

To do any important work in physics a very good mathematical ability and aptitude are required. Some work in applications can be…

— Richard P. Feynman

But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects…

— Edward Gibbon

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws…

— Annie Besant

There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants;…

— Herbert Spencer

If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If…

— David Hume

“On the day of judgment, it will be demanded of us not what we have read, but what we have done.”

— Thomas à Kempis

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

— Les Brown

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

— Henry David Thoreau

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

— Robert J. Sawyer

Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.

— Natalie Dormer

The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.

— L. E. J. Brouwer

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

— Muriel Spark

The success of God's Word in our lives is linked intrinsically to our application of its truth.

— Joni Eareckson Tada