Formulas Quotes
504 quotes by 430 authors
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One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much…
— Marshall Sahlins
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This 'double ethical bind' we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance…
— Stephen Schneider
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Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.
— Sumantra Ghoshal
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Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated…
— Laurie Penny
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great…
— Edward Abbey
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The rigidity of those pledges is something I don’t like. The circumstances change and you can’t be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. It’s—who…
— George H. W. Bush
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Use the formula P=40 to 70, in which P stands for the probability of success and the numbers indicate the percentage of information acquired. Once…
— Colin Powell
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The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall…
— William Graham Sumner
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I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I…
— Thelonious Monk
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If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day…
— Ian Fleming
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There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
— Jackie Stewart
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The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.
— H. L. Mencken
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Worship is not a repetitious exercise of rituals and formulas. These create a veil that actually prevents us from enjoying the presence of the Lord.…
— Dave Hunt
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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.
— Daniel Burrus
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Follow your passion. Magic has no formula.
— Tina Sharkey
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I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I…
— Louise Brown
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The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of…
— Octavio Paz
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Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the…
— Ayn Rand
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It wasn't an easy decision to leave out Bobo, because I could have done that with two or three from the back four. But there's…
— Gordon Strachan
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The reality is that until we can agree on a formula that reduces tariffs globally we cannot meet this Doha promise for development. In order…
— Rob Portman
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