Herbert Spencer Quotes

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Herbert Spencer

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• You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Want
  • Past
  • Mission

• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

  Xenophon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Escape

• Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Day
  • Positive

• For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Change
  • Environment
  • Never

• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Young

• You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Training

• The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Together
  • Challenge
  • Farmer

• My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Olympics

• What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Believe

• I wanna be high, so high.I wanna be free to knowThe things I do are right.I wanna be free,Just me, babe!That's why I'm easy.I'm easy like Sunday morning.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Why
  • High
  • Free

• I drove to Nashville a few times, met with some people and hung out, went to the Opry, and that kind of stuff. I made the decision - you've got to be present to win, so I packed it up and moved out here, and it's been great. It's been the best decision I ever made.

  

  Luke Combs
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu
  • People
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• Pop music is always great for keeping the energy up, but it can get really old, especially after eight hours, just because there aren't that many great pop songs.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• We never do the same set twice... We play for at least two and a half hours, sometimes longer, so there's a lot of songs from all the records. And we know there's a stable we as fans would want to hear, so we always give them, then we change up a bunch of songs and throw in a couple new ones.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Couple

• Fashion is not interesting unless it has some connection to something outside of that world. It's the same thing with any part of the arts: you can't just take pictures - you have to look at science, to listen to music; you have to be aware of the connections within the world. If you take something in an isolated box, it loses all significance.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • World
  • Music
  • Science

• Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Freedom
  • Discipline

• Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Truth
  • Respect

• There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.

  

  Neal Boortz
  • Up

• I'm naturally a protective person to those close to me.

  

  Jason Statham

• One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Great
  • Young
  • First

• I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.

  

  Dave McClure
  • People
  • Different
  • Angry

• Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can we afford life itself? Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of our nation, and they deserve no answers as we finally move to restore and renew them. These questions answer themselves.

  

  Edmund S. Muskie
  • Life
  • Water
  • Answer

• Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Relation