Quotes about Formal

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Votes: 6

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. Votes: 4

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. Votes: 4

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. Votes: 4

I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way. Votes: 4

Formal art is essentially rational. Votes: 3

Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers. Votes: 3

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide. Votes: 3

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own. Votes: 3

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound. Votes: 3

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own. Votes: 3

An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He speaks with a Formal Sigh. Votes: 3

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal". Votes: 3

The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition. Votes: 3

Limits are possibilities. ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer ideas. ... You can be crippled by too many choices, especially if you don't know what your goals are. Votes: 3

My father had very little formal education. Votes: 2

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces. Votes: 2

The formal education that I received made little sense to me. Votes: 2

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense. Votes: 2

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting. Votes: 2

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. Votes: 2

You've got to develop relationships. You can't do things just in a formal context. Votes: 2

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. Votes: 2

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind. Votes: 2

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. Votes: 2

Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls. Votes: 2

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. Votes: 2

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. Votes: 2

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading. Votes: 2

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. Votes: 2

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. Votes: 2

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. Votes: 2

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. Votes: 2

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding. Votes: 2

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations. Votes: 2

I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk. Votes: 2

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training. Votes: 2

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways. Votes: 2

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization. Votes: 2

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early. Votes: 2

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct. Votes: 2

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work. Votes: 2

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning. Votes: 2

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments. Votes: 2

When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and 'human.' Votes: 2

'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece. Votes: 2

I love a modern suit paired with a polo or cotton T-shirt... and then paired with leather sneakers, or cashmere joggers with a tailored blazer and a sleeveless puffer vest to get the ultimate informal and formal combination. Votes: 2

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education! Votes: 2

For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction. Votes: 2

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality. Votes: 2

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. Votes: 2

I don't think people should be fed mesclun salad and chicken breast. My grandmother would serve grits and oxtail stew at a formal dinner, and if you didn't like it, well then you ate more beans or you went home and ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Votes: 2

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.' Votes: 2

This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be. Votes: 2

Our family room, where we live, is about togetherness and ease. Nothing in my house is too formal. There are no coasters on tables; the kids can eat Popsicles on the couch if they want to. I let them ride these little cycles we got for them when they were 3 that have rubber wheels and no pedals. Votes: 2

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures. Votes: 2

Morality, when formal, devours. Votes: 0

Words are cold and formal things. Votes: 0

After love a formal feeling comes. Votes: 0

There isn't a formal definition of success. Votes: 0

I have no formal culinary training, right. Votes: 0

I want a formal apology from the mayor. Votes: 0

Writing is like paying myself a formal visit… Votes: 0

I've never been a big believer in formal education. Votes: 0

A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used. Votes: 0

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education Votes: 0

I think the time of the formal dinners is over. Votes: 0

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue. Votes: 0

True education begins after you are done with formal education. Votes: 0

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. Votes: 0

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics. Votes: 0

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people. Votes: 0

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means. Votes: 0

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram. Votes: 0

Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal. Votes: 0

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be a semi-formal occasion. Votes: 0

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry. Votes: 0

Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years. Votes: 0

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally. Votes: 0

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love? Votes: 0

The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph. Votes: 0

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. Votes: 0

Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition. Votes: 0

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. Votes: 0

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling. Votes: 0

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling. Votes: 0

I love the dynamic contrast between the spontaneous shots and the more formal, pro-rock-star photos. Votes: 0

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. Votes: 0

My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne. Votes: 0

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work. Votes: 0

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. Votes: 0

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training. Votes: 0

The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends. Votes: 0

I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world. Votes: 0

Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor. Votes: 0

I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along. Votes: 0

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. Votes: 0

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling. Votes: 0

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it. Votes: 0

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning. Votes: 0

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. Votes: 0

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical. Votes: 0

You might be a redneck if you have a very special baseball cap, just for formal occasions. Votes: 0

Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care. Votes: 0

Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates. Votes: 0

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around. Votes: 0

Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy? Votes: 0

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. Votes: 0

Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration. Votes: 0

Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents. Votes: 0

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities. Votes: 0

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse. Votes: 0

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege Votes: 0

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse. Votes: 0

I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research. Votes: 0

I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science. Votes: 0

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education. Votes: 0

By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted. Votes: 0

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. Votes: 0

What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life. Votes: 0

What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages. Votes: 0

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist? Votes: 0

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little. Votes: 0

[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important. Votes: 0

The goal of formal education has always been to produce people who could continue to learn on their own. Votes: 0

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have. Votes: 0

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual. Votes: 0

The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy. Votes: 0

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases. Votes: 0

Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it. Votes: 0

If you fold your clothes in the formal spark of joy, you can actually make the joy last longer. Votes: 0

In a formal socialization, no one individual can stand without the other to rely on, regardless of the situation. Votes: 0

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. Votes: 0

I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training. Votes: 0

I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language. Votes: 0

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels. Votes: 0

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness. Votes: 0

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. Votes: 0

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office. Votes: 0

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape. Votes: 0

Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil. Votes: 0

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot. Votes: 0

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own. Votes: 0

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease. Votes: 0

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally. Votes: 0

A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses. Votes: 0

Vests are flair for men. It's one of the few ways men can accent themselves in a formal yet fun fashion. Votes: 0

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply. Votes: 0

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. Votes: 0

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'. Votes: 0

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned. Votes: 0

The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture. Votes: 0

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Votes: 0

Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one. Votes: 0

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise. Votes: 0

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did. Votes: 0

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. Votes: 0

Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects. Votes: 0

You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. Votes: 0

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows. Votes: 0

[Mujahedeen], by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam. Votes: 0

Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings. Votes: 0

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight. Votes: 0

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching. Votes: 0

I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears. Votes: 0

[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed. Votes: 0

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket. Votes: 0

Every book I've written has been different from the others, and each one seems to have its own timeline, requirements, and formal challenges. Votes: 0

The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons. Votes: 0

A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius. Votes: 0

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems. Votes: 0

Hogan began when tastes were changing and people were moving away from clothes that were not so formal: Hogan caught the right moment. Votes: 0

Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all. Votes: 0

I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right. Votes: 0

It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road; you never know when you'll be invited to something really formal. Votes: 0

Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France). Votes: 0

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel. Votes: 0

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature. Votes: 0

The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating. Votes: 0

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught. Votes: 0

The plain, unvarnished truth is, that every one of us needs the accountability that comes from formal, regular, intimate relationships with other godly people. Votes: 0

I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject. Votes: 0

I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free. Votes: 0

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education. Votes: 0

The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish. Votes: 0

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. Votes: 0

Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time. Votes: 0

Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible. Votes: 0

I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don't want to be aware of it or make that my problem. Votes: 0

With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them. Votes: 0

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank. Votes: 0

What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well. Votes: 0

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life. Votes: 0

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics. Votes: 0

One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force. Votes: 0

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception. Votes: 0

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance. Votes: 0

The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture, formal with casual. Votes: 0

I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art. Votes: 0

[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons. Votes: 0

I would like to be remembered, well... the Mexicans have a phrase, 'Feo fuerte y formal'. Which means; he was ugly, strong and had dignity. Votes: 0

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Votes: 0

Bringing undocumented immigrants out from the shadows, putting them into the formal economy will be good, because then employers can't exploit them and undercut Americans' wages. Votes: 0

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies. Votes: 0

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority. Votes: 0

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. Votes: 0

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch. Votes: 0

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me Votes: 0

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform. Votes: 0

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication. Votes: 0

OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph." Votes: 0

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud. Votes: 0

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. Votes: 0

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent. Votes: 0

You don't need a formal prayer or invocation to call the angels to your side. Simply think, 'Angels, please surround me,' and they are there. Votes: 0

There are many different ways that people get licensed or ordained through different ministries, denominations, etc. So - but for myself, there was no formal seminary. Votes: 0

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God. Votes: 0

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo. Votes: 0

It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final. Votes: 0

Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins. Votes: 0

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate. Votes: 0

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake. Votes: 0

I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways. Votes: 0

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody. Votes: 0

I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament. Votes: 0

When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal, I'll put on board shorts. Votes: 0

Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John. Votes: 0

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody. Votes: 0

People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms. Votes: 0

Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion? Votes: 0

I'm not particularly into the formal, political side of faith, although I am spiritual and I do have a faith. But 'Strictly Come Dancing' is my religion. Votes: 0

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect. Votes: 0

The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles. Votes: 0

The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, and we have a formal alliance, NATO, to do so. Votes: 0

In all the talk in the Principles (as opposed to the formal analysis) it is not the saving of rentiers but the energy of entrepreneurs which governs accumulation. Votes: 0

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization. Votes: 0

Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity. Votes: 0

Later, I would ask Shaya to help me compose a formal response to Katrice's letter, something a long the lines of "I am the Thorn Queen. F*** Off. Votes: 0

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse. Votes: 0

I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph. Votes: 0

I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do. Votes: 0

In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study. Votes: 0

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories. Votes: 0

If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education and skills acquisition. Votes: 0

I would love a sandwich,' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham and cheese sandwiches. Votes: 0

I would love a sandwich,' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham and cheese sandwiches. Votes: 0

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological. Votes: 0

Sir, I cannot sing. I have no formal training. I do not read music. And I know this is a church - but I play a mean harmonica. Votes: 0

We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition. Votes: 0

There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements. Votes: 0

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.' Votes: 0

Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, "I went to college with every person I ever met. Votes: 0

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. Votes: 0

The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree. Votes: 0

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves. Votes: 0

Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast. Votes: 0

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it. Votes: 0

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice. Votes: 0

I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work. Votes: 0

In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling. Votes: 0

More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'll enjoy it: I've had threats and blackmail, abuse, smears and formal complaints with forged documentation. Votes: 0

The best way to prepare for life is acombination of formal traditional education, reading, seminars,and workshops, coupled with experience as well as tapping into the knowledge of experienced people. Votes: 0

My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that I was going to be a plumber when I grew up. Votes: 0

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal. Votes: 0

Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful. Votes: 0

I'm a little of everything, a concerned dad, faith-based guy, businessman, entertainer and journalist. I don't have formal training as a journalist, but I think that works to my advantage. Votes: 0

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist. Votes: 0

From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas. Votes: 0

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. Votes: 0

When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music. Votes: 0

My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images. Votes: 0

Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tenative agreements ... Votes: 0

Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning," Shane said. "Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special occasions, like prom and kid's birthdays? Votes: 0

Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness. Votes: 0

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited. Votes: 0

In New York, it's a little bit more formal, a little bit more decorated, and there's a real appreciation for traditional style. Out here, it's casual, fresh, new, and almost humble. Votes: 0

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together. Votes: 0

In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual. Votes: 0

Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense. Votes: 0

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals. Votes: 0

We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order. Votes: 0

It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling. Votes: 0

We saw his [Donald Trump] children appointed this week to formal roles in the transition. A lot of ethics experts looking at that and saying that there is not a blind trust. Votes: 0

For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from commerce as distinct semiotic practices that never interlock. Votes: 0

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all science fiction, which has some similarities to YA. Votes: 0

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it. Votes: 0

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it. Votes: 0

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand. Votes: 0

I dress for the occasion. I like Tom Ford for more formal, especially his suits, and I wear a lot of Under Armour for my athletic gear. I also love Rag & Bone. Votes: 0

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing. Votes: 0

I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies. Votes: 0

I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself. Votes: 0

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart. Votes: 0

Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing? Votes: 0

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum. Votes: 0

There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture. Votes: 0

Since I began booking some stuff with no formal acting training I told myself, that I needed to really study to stay in the game for the longevity and I did just that. Votes: 0

Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned. Votes: 0

Green Giant contained a very strong and clear site and building design concept. Green Giant had strong formal, aesthetic and programmatic concepts, coupled with a good understanding and incorporation of 2030 Palette design strategies. Votes: 0

I hate formal stuff. I love looking like a doll and all that stuff and playing dress up, but when I'm home, sweat pants, t-shirt. When I'm in the studio, sweat pants, t-shirt. Votes: 0

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves. Votes: 0

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too. Votes: 0

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too. Votes: 0

It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life. Votes: 0

The basic idea of email has remained essentially unchanged since the first networked message was sent in 1971. And while email is great for one-on-one, formal correspondence, there are far better tools for collaboration. Votes: 0

As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating. Votes: 0

Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many. Votes: 0

Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens. Votes: 0

Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics. Votes: 0

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle. Votes: 0

There's no question that increased formal credentials can give you an advantage. The question is, is it the best advantage you can buy with the amount of money and time you're going to spend? Votes: 0

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression. Votes: 0

In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions. Votes: 0

Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning. Votes: 0

DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life. Votes: 0

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities. Votes: 0

I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter. Votes: 0

While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek to find out things about people by making photographs of them. Votes: 0

A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but it will help the actual mind to approximate that ideal. Votes: 0

At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate. Votes: 0

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off. Votes: 0

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. Votes: 0

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral. Votes: 0

I believe the term you’re searching for is smoking jacket. I find, now that I have whole days of sunshine ahead of me, I’ve discovered there is more to life than formal haberdashery. Votes: 0

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. Votes: 0

I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom. Votes: 0

By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended. Votes: 0

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. Votes: 0