Application Quotes

• In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.

  

  Ernest Lawrence
  • Problem
  • Suffering
  • Medical

• And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

  

  Henry Taube
  • Science
  • Kind
  • Understanding

• The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.

  

  James Cook
  • Results
  • Socialism
  • Application

• There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Mountain
  • Envy
  • Generosity

• The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Application
  • Ahimsa

• Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Organism

• Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Combination
  • Chosen
  • Unfortunate

• There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Music
  • Genius
  • Standard

• A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should we notify in case of an accident?" He mulls it over and then writes, "Anybody in sight!"

  

  Milton Berle
  • Accident
  • Application
  • Writes

• The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Process
  • Method
  • Lists

• When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Diversity
  • Communicate
  • Meritocracy

• There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Problems
  • Personal
  • Application

• So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.

  

  Miguel de Icaza
  • Consumers
  • Enterprise
  • Editing

• Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

  

  Cargill Gilston Knott
  • Growing
  • Mankind
  • Theory

• The gospel does not abolish industry, but changes its nature and chief design; it dignifies toil, mitigates the evils connected therewith, and creates new motives to diligence. The triumph achieved on Calvary never was designed to supersede the duty of close application to enterprising duty. Its first command compels us to some honorable and useful pursuit. Its language is," Study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands as we commanded you." " If any man will not work, neither let him eat."

  

  Elias Lyman Magoon
  • Design
  • Duty
  • Industry

• Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Truth
  • Philosophy
  • Sciences

• Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Paid
  • Application
  • Seed

• It is easy to sympathize with the MIS staffs around the world, I mean who hasn't lost work due to Windows or a Microsoft application crashing?

  

  Chris DiBona
  • World
  • Easy
  • Window

• I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • College

• Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be so closely linked in our minds with the actions in conjunction with which we have made it our duty to exercise them that if we come to engage in an activity of a different kind, it catches us off guard and without the slightest awareness that it might involve the application of those same virtues.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Exercise
  • Activity
  • Virtues

• There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.

  

  Charles de Saint-Évremond
  • Inspiring
  • Ingenuity
  • Passages

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