Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There's not much room for deviation, yet if you manage to crack it, there then you can express things that actually do… — Rob Brown Copy Share Image
I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . . — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one. — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression — Mohammad Khatami Copy Share Image
The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you.… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“If norms are oppressive, try to foster acceptance of deviations, don't try to destroy the norms themselves — that's a fool's errand.” — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That's what drives the academics… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
