Johann Heinrich Lambert Quotes

We will next proceed by the lamp of experience, consulting with care the observations deposited in the records of astronomy.

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• I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

  

  B. B. King
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Science

• I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Different
  • Want
  • Me

• If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Good
  • Reason

• There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Wonder
  • Questions
  • Research

• I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Why
  • Kids

• In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.

  

  Xavi
  • Football
  • Win
  • Legacy

• If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Two

• I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Car

• It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Why
  • Together
  • Movie

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • See
  • Hear

• I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Play
  • Knew
  • Villain

• I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Men
  • Small
  • Faith

• In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Policy
  • Views
  • Spectrum

• I'm used to people talking about me.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • People
  • Me
  • Talking

• Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Failure
  • Means
  • Away

• I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Find
  • Visit
  • Map

• My Pa always said, 'Live fast, die laughing,' that's the way to do it.

  

  Doug McClure
  • Live
  • Die

• It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of the subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Attention

• Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

  

  Paula Abdul
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Taken

• In the end, I didn't think I was good enough to use sax as a stage performer to get where I wanted, and thank God I chose my voice as my instrument instead. You need to be honest with yourself, and I was.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Voice
  • Instrument
  • Sax

• We will next proceed by the lamp of experience, consulting with care the observations deposited in the records of astronomy.

  

  Johann Heinrich Lambert
  • Experience