Quotes having the keyword Degree
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
by Twyla Tharp (Dancer, American , born in 1941) keywords: behind, certain, cynicism, degree, energizing, experience, more, much, old, optimism, plain, some , than There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
by Fred Thompson (Politician, American , born in 1942) keywords: competence, courtroom, degree, law, lot, modicum, more, skill , than The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
by Walter Ulbricht (Politician, German , born in 1893) keywords: consists, criticize, degree, democracy, important, mistakes, nature, problems , right Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
by Raoul Vaneigem (Philosopher, Belgian , born in 1934) keywords: before, civilization, contempt, degree, drowned, felt, generation, life, live, mortification, never, rage, reached , such The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
by Thorstein Veblen (Economist, American , born in 1857) keywords: addiction, arrested, degree, development, man, marks, moral, nature, peculiar, sports , therefore The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.
by Paul A. Volcker (Economist, American , born in 1927) keywords: around, communication, degree, difference, ease, information, kind, moving, speed, things, transfer, well , world Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.
by Andrzej Wajda (Director, Polish , born in 1926) keywords: been, cinema, contemporary, degree, last, minuscule, nevertheless, only, poland, reality, represented, theatre , years Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
by James D. Watson (Scientist, American , born in 1928) topics: Science keywords: competitiveness, degree, fostering, freedom, give, pressure, put, researchers, seclusion, take, them, together, turn, unprecedented, up, virtual , young Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
by Simone Weil (Philosopher, French , born in 1909) keywords: attention, beings, degree, due, effectively, equal, equality, expressed, human, institutions, manners, needs, principle, public , recognition There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
by Simone Weil (Philosopher, French , born in 1909) keywords: any, baseness, because, degree, grandeur, laws, loyalty, oath, soul, springs , true The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
by Ida B. Wells (Activist, American , born in 1862) keywords: brutalized, degree, foundation, government, inhabitants, law, order, own, realized, south , very We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.
by William Whewell (Philosopher, English , born in 1794) keywords: being, cannot, course, degree, external, influenced, nor, observe, observed, our, reflect, reflection, some, things, thought, thoughts, upon, which , without What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.
by Rowan Williams (Theologian, English , born in 1950) keywords: culture, degree, developed, disney, empire, feeds, marketing, obsession, openly, professionalism, say , unprecedented You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.
by Dave Winer (Scientist, American , born in 1955) keywords: degree, every, get, nth, pay, sense, software, way, works , world Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
by Mary Wollstonecraft (Writer, British , born in 1759) keywords: degree, educated, great, live, manners, men, must, opinions, society , women Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.
by Chauncey Wright (Philosopher, American , born in 1830) keywords: agreements, belief, confidence, degree, evidence, high, kind, made, maintains, minds, only, ought, produce, produces, such, their, though, through , which I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.
by Michael York (Actor, British , born in 1942) keywords: always, bits, degree, done, english, enjoyed, graduated, journalism , writing
