It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly,… — Claire Weekes Copy Share Image
Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the… — Clarissa Ward Copy Share Image
Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II,… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
It is necessary to do a very thorough examination of your life and to discover whether the people in your life, no… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and… — Syama Prasad Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In… — John M. Tyler Copy Share Image
Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words ,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in, and do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can. — Marie Colvin Copy Share Image
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
Good design is innovative 2. Good design makes a product useful 3. Good design is aesthetic 4. Good design makes a product… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do,… — David Allen Copy Share Image
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
