System Quotes

5175 quotes by 3297 authors

Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the… — Takafumi Horie
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect… — Murray Gell-Mann
A good system shortens the road to the goal. — Orison Swett Marden
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there. — Harry Neale
The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for… — Arleigh Burke
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost? — Quentin Crisp
Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again - your… — Maxwell Maltz
We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back… — Ray Bradbury
Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by technical thoughts. — Fred Couples
There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Taste has no system and no proofs. — Susan Sontag
Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different… — Scilla Elworthy
Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people… — Richard M. Nixon
I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects… — Lester Grinspoon
If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding… — George Bernard Shaw
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious… — Charles Caleb Colton
I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation… — Philip Zimbardo

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