All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose. — William Taylor Copy Share Image
Cheating is a definite no-no. My man has to be all mine or never mind! — Shraddha Kapoor Copy Share Image
Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night,… — Whitey Herzog Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of habit patterns It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms… — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Something indefinite is always worse than something definite, a strong fear that doesn't last very long is easier than one that's nebulous… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which… — David Frost Copy Share Image
Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is… — Lewis Fry Richardson Copy Share Image
I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
What really intrigues me is that the totality of all possible Nows of any definite kind has a very special structure. You… — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of… — William James Copy Share Image
Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really… — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
“Think only of what you desire, and expect only what you desire, even when the very contrary seems to be coming into… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image