Introduction Quotes

• My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Mother
  • Firsts
  • Albums

• The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

  

  Carleton S. Coon
  • Men
  • Animal
  • Humans

• Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution.

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Mystery

• Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Art
  • Imagination
  • Film

• Evermore the Law must prepare the way for the gospel. To overlook this in instructing souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to fill the Church with false converts... Time will make this plain.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Soul
  • Church
  • Christian

• Before information age, living standards basically were flat. Since then, they've been growing 2 percent a year were about 30 times richer. So technology, machines is really, you know, arguably the most important thing that's happened to humanity in terms of our living standards. You could look to the introduction of digital computers in the 1950s.

  

  Erik Brynjolfsson
  • Important
  • Humanity
  • Introduction

• I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Remember
  • Magazines
  • Illustrators

• The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Government
  • Tax
  • Transactions

• introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

  

  Steve Martin
  • Natural
  • Introduction
  • Shyness

• Friends of Bernard's Leach came to visit, and when we went to London, we were given introductions to people like Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Richard Batram. All these people were, let's say, made available to us by a friendship with Leach. In addition there was a potter's group - what was it called? I think it was called the Cornish Potters Society, but I'm not sure of that. Anyway, they had meetings and we would go with Leach to these meetings and meet other potters, and they would have programs where they would discuss pottery and people would interchange ideas.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • People
  • Program
  • Meetings

• I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American society. And then the next year, of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. And the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series. All of that made a huge impression on my growing mind.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • World
  • Mind
  • Winning

• I actually wrote the song first as "well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday." That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Song
  • Mood
  • Saturday

• I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Violence
  • Violent
  • Grew

• I need to be famous so I can talk about religion. I can talk about God. It's an expensive price that I have to pay to be the most famous man on earth and I do it with pleasure only for God. My fight is only and introduction to the real fight, the one for God. Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • God
  • Religion
  • Price

• Growing up playing the drums, I idolised Questlove from an early age. 'Phrenology' was the first Roots record that I ever heard, and that was like my introduction to hip hop.

  

  Isom Innis
  • Growing Up
  • Drums
  • Introduction

• Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be used to explain everything.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Behavior
  • Phrases
  • Psychoanalysis

• I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduction to LeRoi Jones was when my mother used to read me the 'Dead Lecturer' poems when I was a kid.

  

  Rashid Johnson
  • Interested
  • Poems
  • Introduction

• It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of tyranny, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed.

  

  George Washington
  • Government
  • Constitution
  • Tyranny

• In other words, the cultural education of any high-school student should include an introduction to the idea that a writer adapts his writing to ever-changing expressive needs and that a higher or lower note doesn't mean that the singer has changed.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Education
  • Idea
  • Changed

• I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • School
  • Study
  • Facts

• The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a period of some 100 years beginning only in the 18th century, of the idea of change itself, of change over periods of time: in a word, of evolution.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Change
  • Evolution
  • View Of The World

• To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve linguistics structures; lets the mechanics of syntax to be visible, allows the possibility for rapid introduction and spread of new concepts; gives permission for new ways of seeing; and this is what we have to do, we have to change our minds.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Political
  • Possibility

• My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.

  

  Geoffrey Wilkinson
  • Brother
  • Through
  • Chemistry

• He drew for me on a piece of paper all of my scales. Every week it was something new. That was my first introduction to music theory.

  

  Ben Jaffe
  • Piece
  • Introduction
  • Scales

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