Primaries Quotes · Page 7

Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

— Thomas McEvilley

Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to … A form of political illiteracy.

— Bill Kraus

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

— Saint John Chrysostom

Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.

— Richard J. Foster

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

— Brian Tracy

What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true?

— Michael Gerber

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

— Alexander Calder

The primary reason people watch television is you want to see the world through somebody else's eyes, and learn what that's like.…

— Frank Spotnitz

One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does…

— Brian Evenson

It was quite tough, not many opportunities. I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, "As for you young man,…

— John Ilhan

You need to be passionate about the creative work that you're doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from…

— Veronica Roth

People sometimes ask me, "You're still in a primary - why are you criticizing [Donald] Trump?" It's because I don't want what…

— Hillary Clinton

The body is our primary feedback mechanism which can show us what is and isn't working about our ways of thinking, expressing,…

— Shakti Gawain

Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for…

— Ellis Marsalis, Jr

A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The…

— Calvin Coolidge

The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must…

— Edward Glaeser

Fiction stymies me with its possibility. I can't see the bottom and I freeze, cling to the side, or just choke. In…

— Melissa Febos

Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions, but actually, the…

— Adyashanti

Liberia has to take primary responsibility for its own reform agenda. But our resources are limited. We have to attract the private…

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can…

— Terrance Hayes

Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie…

— Bob Proctor

Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the…

— Terence McKenna

This partisan decision by a packed GOP state Supreme Court takes away worker's rights to bargain for a safe place to work.…

— Chris Larson

The question is the primary form of communication for little kids.

— Jim Gaffigan

Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary…

— Rita Mae Brown

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

— Cato the Younger

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

— Peter Drucker

The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income.

— Peter Dicken

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

— Cornel West

The fact that women are the primary care-givers is a problem for women and men

— Caroline Criado-Perez

You might be a redneck if your primary source of income is the pawn shop.

— Jeff Foxworthy

The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.

— Brian Tracy

The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.

— Northrop Frye

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

— George Orwell

My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.

— Gunther Schuller

It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief.

— Rodney Stark

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

— Marya Mannes