Factors Quotes · Page 6

I'm always being asked if I watch 'The X Factor,' and I do from time to time. I know it makes for…

— Shirley Bassey

The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking…

— Ramana Maharshi

Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral…

— Pope John Paul II

I don't think human affection and compassion are just religious concerns; they're indispensable factors in our day-to-day lives.

— Dalai Lama

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

— Frank Knight

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

— J. Philippe Rushton

Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.

— Willy Bogner, Jr

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is…

— Robert Gilpin

My grandmother I admired even more [than mother]. She was an Irish lady and a very kind-hearted person. She had a lot…

— Edmund Hillary

As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the…

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for…

— John Battelle

I don't think anything really consciously went into 'Legend' that was influenced by videogames, but I'm pretty sure some of my experiences…

— Marie Lu

Understand the "Gretzky Factor": Cultivate an instinct, a "touch", call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the…

— Warren G. Bennis

To be very honest with you, there were two big factors: One was that we were initially coming out in that week…

— Shawn Anthony Levy

Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make…

— Agatha Christie

Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present…

— Thomas George Bonney

Ask any real estate broker to name the three most important factors in buying a property, and he'll say: "Location, location, location."…

— Dave Barry

Outside of the marriage context, can you think of any other rational basis, reason, for a state using sexual orientation as a…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The subconscious mind is probably the most important factor in being a good golfer. It keeps distractions on the course from ruining…

— Wiffy Cox

In every single case, the truth is that the atmosphere created by the Iraq invasion and the staggeringly mismanaged occupation has incited…

— Sidney Blumenthal

A critic may reject some miracle stories as legendary, and not others, with no inconsistency at all for the simple reason that…

— Robert M. Price

Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To…

— Herbert Marcuse

Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members…

— John Brunner

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

— Nathan Rosenberg

High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity—even among the college-educated.

— Daphne Koller

If it's a story that I feel is exciting and necessary, those are really motivating factors for me.

— Pauletta Pearson Washington

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

— Herbert Hoover

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

— Carl von Clausewitz

The correct form factor for a laptop is obviously 12" and 2 lbs, and I don't understand why everybody gets that wrong.

— Linus Torvalds

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

— Ashley Judd

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

— Dalai Lama

I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly…

— William S. Burroughs

I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC?

— Steve Ballmer

One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on The X Factor. That was my payback to her…

— Liam Payne

Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start…

— Bernard Cornwell

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer…

— Robert Rhodes James

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our…

— Stephen Covey

Positive attitude is the foundation of your life - and the determining factor of your ability to serve.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

— Nathaniel Branden