Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill. — Jim Highsmith Copy Share Image
The religion is a formality. What matters is you show respect to God and your faith in God. — Sean Stone Copy Share Image
“Just the usual formality before the chaos begins. Like playing the National Anthem before a Cubs game.” — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know? — Noah Emmerich Copy Share Image
It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert… — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's to the point now… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don't foster good business relationships. No one… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
“I dislike your formality."…"Your formality keeps us at arms length when I want not even a hairbreadths between us.” — Carolyn Jewel Copy Share Image
“There's a formality in academia that can't be ignored, even if a man is busy with other things, like trying not to… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
The Christian principles on which the country was primarily founded are rarely consulted other than for formalities of state, derision, or for… — H. Wayne House Copy Share Image
The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
I probably sensed the serious formality of the ceremonies and felt what others were feeling then. Looking back, I'd guess that it… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
I am as fond of colorful language as anyone, but I try not to inflict it upon strangers. I suspect many people… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Believers should be open to and encourage the Spirit's moving within each one, including the spontaneity from individual initiatives when gathered together.… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality...plead the promise in a truthful, business-like… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Boredom has to be the most life sapping, mental disease you can be afflicted with.The most accurate definition of boredom I have… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Both formality and dinner forgotten we sat on the floor of the little library, choosing. Sometimes Dr Portman read passages aloud and… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
A wedding is the formality a man has to go through before going to work for a new boss. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“The formality that is left in the South now is quite dead and done for of course.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved. — Bobby Flay Copy Share Image
You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules,… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
