Preliminary Quotes

73 quotes by 67 authors

In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone. — Deanna Petherbridge
NRTC is pleased with our preliminary agreement and we look forward to working with SES AMERICOM, as it develops the exciting, new IP-PRIME platform, ..… — Bob Phillips
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to… — Edward Weston
The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches… — E. J. Hughes
To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data.… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. — John Maynard Keynes
When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary… — Haniel Long
I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty.… — Rachel McAdams
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that… — Lewis Mumford
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which… — Albert Pike
The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of… — John Polkinghorne
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably… — Ezra Pound
At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do… — Burt Rutan
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the… — Paul Tillich
Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A… — Daniel H. Wilson
I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such… — P.G. Wodehouse
Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it… — Carl Sagan
Well.. Is that all you've got?.. I hope not..cuz you haven't finished entertaining me yet.. -Gaara to Rock Lee during the Chunin preliminary — Masashi Kishimoto
Her failure was a useful preliminary to success. — Edith Wharton

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