Augustus Pitt Rivers Quotes

Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the owner as rubbish ... yet it is by the study of such trivial details that Archaeology is mainly dependent for determining the date of earthworks. ... Next to coins fragments of pottery afford the most reliable of all evidence.

Augustus Pitt Rivers

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• Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Children
  • American
  • Best

• Study first, play afterwards.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Play
  • Study
  • First

• Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • American
  • Study

• Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • She
  • Mom

• I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Experience
  • History

• For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Wife

• I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Good
  • Love
  • Study

• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Age
  • Study
  • Childhood

• What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Think
  • Things
  • Evidence

• The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Law
  • Me

• In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started high school, they began to offer an elective Bible study group for young Christians who wanted a chance to read in the afternoons instead of learn to water-ski.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • School
  • High
  • Water

• There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Book
  • Study
  • Thought

• Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • People
  • Work
  • Nature

• Continue to study and learn new skills.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Study
  • Learn
  • Skills

• Logic is usually understood nowadays as a study of certain formal systems, though in former times there were philosophers who held that the subject matter of logic was the formal rules of human thought.

  

  Logic
  • Study
  • Logic

• The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Mind
  • American
  • Reading

• Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Question

• I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Why

• There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

  

  Joan Chen
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Study

• The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Evidence
  • Resistance
  • Charm

• A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Time
  • Man
  • Study

• Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

  

  Edward Zander
  • Funny

• Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the owner as rubbish ... yet it is by the study of such trivial details that Archaeology is mainly dependent for determining the date of earthworks. ... Next to coins fragments of pottery afford the most reliable of all evidence.

  

  Augustus Pitt Rivers
  • Study
  • Evidence
  • Archaeology