Formulas Quotes

• How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Values
  • Answers
  • Doctrine

• I think every musician is different, every artist is different, and in a perfect world people would be able to pursue their own path and have the inspiration and the drive to, and the energy and dedication to take their path to its fruition. I don't really believe in formulas.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Energy
  • Artist
  • Inspiration

• Teach principles not formulas.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Principles
  • Formulas

• I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Simple
  • Feelings
  • Contradictory

• First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them so as thus to discern the particular laws governing a certain class of phenomena. In general, it is not until after these particular laws have been established that one can expect to discover and articulate the more general laws that complete theories by bringing a multitude of apparently very diverse phenomena together under a single governing principle.

  

  Augustin-Louis Cauchy
  • Law
  • Facts
  • Formulas

• If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.

  

  Sandy Koufax
  • Magic
  • Pitching
  • Fourth

• A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Simple
  • Universe
  • Complexity

• Armed with these two formulas you can do any problem!

  

  Arthur Mattuck
  • Problem
  • Formulas
  • Armed

• The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

  

  Meryl Streep
  • Success
  • Way
  • Happiness

• I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Thinking
  • Answers
  • Creating

• When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.

  

  Carol Channing
  • People
  • Trying
  • Moments

• Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

  

  William James
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Formulas

• Volleyball is not like a formula so we must give players some freedom.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Player
  • Volleyball
  • Formulas

• Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Character
  • Jokes
  • Formulas

• Maybe Formula One should have an inversion rule in qualifying.

  

  Bob Varsha
  • Should
  • Formulas
  • Inversions

• They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

  

  Michael Zaslow
  • Classic
  • Opera
  • Soap

• Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Life
  • Boundaries
  • Formulas

• I think God’s hope and plan for us is pretty simple to figure out. For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Interests
  • Passions
  • God's Hope

• I'm interested in exploring the places where all media meet. As TV, Internet, art, games and movies all start moving towards the same point, I want to be part of inventing that space. I'd like to explore media that are traditionally seen as part of the mainstream but not necessarily utilize mainstream formulas.

  

  Ryan Trecartin
  • Internet
  • Interested
  • Places

• It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.

  

  David Stockman
  • Way
  • Policy
  • Theory

• I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Car
  • Smile
  • Faces

• Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Kind
  • Teach
  • Clothes

• I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of, the formula for life. Think of the power, to create a man. And I did, I did it, I created a man. And who knows, in time I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race, I might even have found the secret of eternal life.

  

  William Hurlbut
  • Thinking
  • Power
  • Giving

• High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.

  

  Chicken John
  • Stores
  • Retail
  • Staples

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