Best Operative Quotes
83 Operative quotes by 66 unique authors
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The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.
— Leland Stanford
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In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions:…
— Henry Wotton
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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
— Andrew Vachss
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Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times.…
— Chris Prentiss
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We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male,…
— Frederick Lenz
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Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will…
— John Henry Newman
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The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea,…
— Jack Welch
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Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea…
— Edward Zwick
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Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
— Leland Stanford
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The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation…
— Leland Stanford
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It has been demonstrated that freemason - in an operative context - is a contraction of 'freestone mason'....The earliest printed use so far traced comes…
— John Hamill
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Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in…
— John Hamill
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The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real…
— Thornton Wilder
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The Japanese tend to be far more co-operative and docile and group-oriented. It would be easier to get the entire population of Tokyo to wear…
— Dave Barry
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A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a…
— Johannes Rau
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The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.
— Frederick Lenz
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The life that we see on our small planet is not necessarily a great reflection of the entire universe. The people are beautiful, but they…
— Frederick Lenz
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The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you…
— Frederick Lenz
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Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.
— Alfred Thayer Mahan
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Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.
— Leland Stanford
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Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in…
— Leland Stanford
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It is important that the decorum and dignity of the House is upheld at all times. The image of Parliament in the public mind should…
— Pratibha Patil
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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back…
— Vince Cable
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In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.
— Jeff Greenfield
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Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.
— Stanley Milgram
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