Factors Quotes
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Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.
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The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.
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We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with one accord from all sides the evolution of the world of organisms, we cannot assume that the process stopped short of Man. But it follows also that the factors which brought about the development of Man from his Simian ancestry must be the same as those which have brought about the whole of evolution.
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The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.
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The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
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I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.
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Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.
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If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.
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There are a whole bunch of structural and systemic factors we need to address in order to move away from the model in which women really are still dependent on men.
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The main factor for Craig was that he was being asked to move to a new position in the last year of his contract. We had empathy for that and we wanted to show what he has meant to the Astros over the years.
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Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.
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I mean, I think there were a couple factors. I think that they were judging me and I was one of the few people to do any dark material. And that may have made me stick out a little bit more. I don’t think it was that edgy or crazy of material.
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Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
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The polar view, as it was for Marx, is that it was not material factors, but rather ideal factors, that are the main drivers of globalization.
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If you look at what the factors were going into the decision, of course there are competing interests and values. And one of our values is we bring everybody home off the battlefield the best we can. It doesn't matter how they ended up in a prisoner of war situation... It does not matter.
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Ronald Reagan was an actor. Not at all a factor, Just an employee of the country's real masters. Just like the Bushes, Clinton and Obama, Just another talkin' head tellin' lies on teleprompters. If you don't believe the theory, then argue with this logic: Why did Reagan and Obama both go after Gaddafi? We invaded sovereign soil, goin' after oil Takin' countries as a hobby paid for by the oil lobby, Same as Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ahmadinejad sayin' they comin' for Iran.
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Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting?
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Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors.
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With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
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You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.
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Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.
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Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.
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It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.
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Giving yourself more time to decide about something does not necessarily mean that you'll make a better decision. But it does guarantee that you'll end up considering more factors, more hypotheticals, more pros and cons, and thus risk overfitting.
