Example Quotes

• The only kinds of ways we have to deal with viruses are old school, so vaccines for example are very effective, but the first vaccines were invented in the 1700's, so we're talking about technology that is over 200 years-old.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • School
  • Technology
  • Kind

• Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Action
  • Leadership
  • Position

• I am not someone who deserves to be dissected and analyzed like some tragic example of everything that can possibly go wrong for a professional athlete.

  

  Josh Gordon
  • Example
  • Deserves
  • Analyzed

• It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • Kind
  • Certain
  • Example

• An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Opinion
  • Artist
  • Example

• In fact, Bill Clinton's an excellent example of what he should be doing when he realizes that he's not invulnerable. He realized two things: his invulnerability was contextualized in two things: junk food, and he had a problem with certain kinds of women.

  

  Walter Mischel
  • Certain
  • Excellent
  • Clinton

• Here's an example of how it wastes some time. To be judged on or to be talked about on appearance—say chest size—it makes me wear layers, it makes me have to waste time figuring out what am I going to wear so that nobody will look in an area that I don't need them to look at.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Needs
  • Looks
  • Appearance

• Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Friends

• Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Gone
  • Flow
  • Sand

• I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.

  

  Rick Nielsen Cheap Trick
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Example

• Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.

  

  Gene Logsdon
  • Culture
  • Technology
  • Baseball

• It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Needs
  • Prepared
  • Contact

• My parents set a fantastic example for me in that their passion came from theater.

  

  Zoe Perry
  • Parents
  • Passion
  • Theater

• I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

  

  Simon Baker
  • Example
  • Investors
  • Shelter

• I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

  

  Ray Stevenson
  • Pirate
  • Shoulders
  • Accents

• A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Change
  • Person
  • Living

• If there's anything you want to do and you can't figure out why you're not doing it, there's a simple answer: you link more pain to doing it than not doing it. Hey, if you don't have enough money, for example I know that's an issue for a lot of people. It was for a good deal of my life. If you don't have money there's only one reason: you link more pain to having more money than to not having it.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Simple
  • Pain

• In my community everyone seems to listen or have an interest in what I have to say, what I'm wearing, or what I'm doing. They just follow what I do, I don't tell them to. I just try to lead by example.

  

  Santiago Leyva
  • Trying
  • Community
  • Interest

• My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Life
  • Values
  • My Mother

• I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.

  

  Tom Green
  • Example
  • Commandments
  • Polygamy

• I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.

  

  Riley Keough
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• Internationally, there are countries going well beyond the course, with airlines, transportation. There are systems around the world that have explored mining, rail transport, television, communication, Internet service - there very common examples around the world that we can draw examples from.

  

  Gar Alperovitz
  • World
  • Country
  • Common

• I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Proud
  • Pretentious
  • Literacy

• We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement.

  

  Calvin Miller
  • World
  • Simple
  • Christmas

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