Isaac Newton Quotes

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

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• The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Good
  • May
  • Knowledge

• Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.

  

  Yuan T. Lee
  • Time
  • Important
  • Nature

• What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Life
  • Art
  • Subversive

• Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Reason
  • Person
  • Liking

• Society becomes how we behave.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Society
  • Behave
  • How

• I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Earth
  • Computers
  • Studying

• There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • You
  • Fight
  • Corruption

• Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Give
  • Terrible

• I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Soul

• I don't worry about the things I can't change.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • Worry
  • Things

• Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Focus
  • Safety
  • Uncertainty

• I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Face

• If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Process

• I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Find
  • Look
  • Nostalgia

• In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Power
  • End
  • Actor

• And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Earth
  • Color
  • Most

• When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Really
  • Little
  • Crystal

• The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.

  

  Dominic West
  • Kiss

• Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.

  

  Nelly
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Self

• I was champion, off and on, for quite a few years, and I never missed one title match from an injury. I got hurt lots of times, but the reality is you've got so much pinned on you and so much tied onto you, the company and your peers can't afford for you to get hurt.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Reality
  • Hurt
  • Champion

• I wake up. If I have a rehearsal, I go do that, and when I come back to the hotel, I sit down and turn on the laptop, 'cause I've got nothing to do without that!

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Wake Up
  • Hotel
  • Rehearsal

• I know I`m mean to tell you these things, but he is much worse than I am. He has the worst kind of meanness, that of superficiality.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Things
  • Meanness
  • Superficiality

• We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Things
  • Causes
  • Admit