I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop,… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
The continuous networks of neural circuitry accomplish their functions using multiple, independently discovered strategies. The brain lends itself well to the complexity… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth. If there… — Huineng Copy Share Image
The Tao can't be perceived. Smaller than an electron, it contains uncountable galaxies. If powerful men and women could remain centered in… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse.… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies,… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Try to understand why it is happening, from where it is coming, where the roots are, how it happens, how it functions,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Well, God doesn't intervene in many of the situations we would like Him to because He would have to intervene in everything… — Gerald Coates Copy Share Image
One of my favorite patterns is the tendency for the markets to move from relative lows to relative highs and vice versa… — Jack D. Schwager Copy Share Image
It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success… — Samuel J. Tilden Copy Share Image
The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of… — William James Copy Share Image
I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
This is government's primary function - to keep us safe - and when large percentages in America don't feel safe, they start… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of… — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of… — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
With the rise of industrialism, words like 'normal' and 'defective,' words that had once only been used to refer to things, began… — Anne Finger Copy Share Image
No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality.… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
What is also true is that partly because my docket was really full here, so I couldn't be both chief organizer of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In my view, the argument from parsimony is really no argument at all - it typically functions only to shut down more… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Directing is monumentally complicated and it's a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own.… — Bram Cohen Copy Share Image
People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At that moment when I put my foot on the step… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
