Premises Quotes

• All proofs rest on premises.

  

  Aristotle
  • Rest
  • Proofs
  • Premises

• There was also a great absence of people, including behind the mahogany-topped reception desk. Now, there’s a time when an unlocked premises is a positive boon to a police officer as in – I was just looking to ascertain the whereabouts of the proprietor when I stumbled across the Class A controlled substances which were in plain sight in the bottom drawer of a locked desk in an upstairs office, M’lord.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Desk
  • Premises
  • Police Officer

• Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Luck
  • Greed
  • Satisfied

• To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.

  

  Ricardo Semler
  • Successful
  • Accepting
  • Organizational

• I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Know
  • Change
  • Conclusions

• We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

  

  Aristotle
  • Superiority
  • Hypotheses
  • Postulates

• Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises,principles.

  

  Aristotle
  • Principles
  • Cause
  • Demonstration

• A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Business
  • Customer
  • Premises

• For Ayn had built up a comprehensive systematic philosophy, which she calls Objectivism, and which, once you accept its first premises, is the most closely reasoned, rigorously logical and consistently interlocking world view and explanation since the great synthesis of Thomas Aquinas.

  

  Barbara Branden
  • Philosophy
  • View
  • Synthesis

• When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.

  

  Arthur M. Wellington
  • Problem
  • Mathematical
  • Methods

• A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Customer
  • Visitors
  • Premises

• It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort and it lives on the lips of the child crying for his mother. It is the song of the lover in need of her loved one, the raving of the lunatic supplicant petitioning his God...The love song is the sound of our endeavors to become God-like, to rise up and above the earthbound and the mediocre.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Song
  • Premises
  • Inhabits

• The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.

  

  Lord Byron
  • People
  • Meeting
  • Premises

• Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

  

  William Zinsser
  • Writing
  • inspirational
  • Simplicity