I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“This is why introductions are important--because in the beginning, despite the fact that we already believe we know what it means, there's… — Andrew Kendall Copy Share Image
The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Here's a startling fact: in the 45 years since the introduction of the automated teller machine, those vending machines that dispense cash,… — David Autor Copy Share Image
2012, I feel like I was still grinding. It was a good year for me, but that was my year breaking down… — Mike Will Made It Copy Share Image
In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
For a Nabokov fan, paging through 'Fine Lines,' which includes a critical introduction and several essayistic evaluations of Nabokov's scientific oeuvre, can… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
3D is very exciting. I love it. I'm a complete convert. Everything for me, from now on, is 3D. I'm completely convinced… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
In the 80s, Ford's successful introduction of the Taurus was, in large part, due to productivity gains resulting from the setting aside… — James O'Toole Copy Share Image
New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Has anyone seen me on Letterman? Two million people watch that show and I don't know where they are. You might have… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I actually applied at Hanna-Barbera to work on 'The Smurfs' when I got laid off for a brief period of time from… — Kelly Asbury Copy Share Image
After further introductions were made, we settled in the family room. Yes, the living room would have been nicer, but I wanted… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction… — Diane Coyle Copy Share Image
I just don't accept that there is a trade off between trade and democracy ... what we've got now is an institution… — Ruth Davidson Copy Share Image
Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe.… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
High level policy makers and program managers do not normally listen to the voices of local people, local providers and local program… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
My introduction of Whitney was that if there's going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
There are ten thousand aspects of your mind. Your awareness has ten thousand forms. There is something else. You have to step… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such… — Masaaki Imai Copy Share Image
Nakedness is very common in the tribe. It is not a shameful thing; it is an expression of one's relationship with the… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
I was such a huge fan of Harry Potter books. That's how I got into it. I had never really thought about… — Rupert Grint Copy Share Image
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A basic is an introduction. A fundamental is a foundation. A fundamental is a premise, idea, or fact that an entire system… — Marc MacYoung Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My introduction into Marvel world was Comic-Con 2014 where I really had to take a step back and go, 'What have I… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image