Degrees Quotes

• The degree of difficulty in creating what we want lies within our belief about the difficulty or possibility of creating it.

  

  Pamala Oslie
  • Lies
  • Lying
  • Creating

• Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.

  

  W. A. Mathieu
  • Music
  • Musician
  • Healing

• My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Understanding
  • Firsts
  • Murder

• The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Qualities
  • Bodies
  • Remission

• The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

  

  Anna Leonowens
  • Read
  • Degrees
  • Neglected

• I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • Persons
  • Insane
  • Worthwhile

• Remedial work needed? It often is. In my introductory political science classes, I encounter far too many students who cannot write coherently. I would like to think this is being remedied in composition courses, since without that competence they can’t do college-level work. But it’s quite another thing to say that all undergraduates need advanced algebra to proceed toward their degrees.

  

  Andrew Hacker
  • Work
  • Students
  • Degrees

• You know, my degrees are in computer engineering. I spent a lot of time in the tech industry. And I like to say that I don't invest in tech because I spent time in it. And I saw firsthand that the durability of technology moats is many times an oxymoron.

  

  Mohnish Pabrai
  • Technology
  • Industry
  • Computer

• He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop of water evaporating in the sun, shrinking and shrinking until at last he wasn’t there anymore.

  

  Paul Auster
  • World
  • Water
  • Ends

• A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.

  

  Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
  • Learning
  • Punk
  • Territory

• The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Imagination
  • Ordinary
  • Degrees

• Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Animal

• Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Chance
  • Murder
  • Degrees

• Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Ability
  • Weakness
  • Meanness

• Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we already have serious problems in the world.

  

  Evo Morales
  • World
  • Problem
  • Serious

• I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Want
  • Care
  • Degrees

• I'm not saying that the Americans had the same impact as the Jesuits, but I do see them as a very specialized populace, even in terms of being, to a degree, naïve. Because naiveté comes from lack of information.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Information
  • Term
  • Impact

• If you bounce a tennis ball against a wall it will come back to you the same way every time. But if you shift the wall a few degrees it will come back another way.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Wall
  • Tennis
  • Balls

• What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for Donald Trump, and do not participate in that brand of animus, that gas-bagging of enormous bigotry.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Brother
  • Enormous
  • Bigotry

• We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

  

  Bo Lozoff
  • Light
  • Grace
  • Degrees

• Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don't get your diploma until you're dead.

  

  Mother Angelica
  • Difficult
  • Names
  • Lifetime

• I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

  

  Michael York
  • Journalism
  • Degrees
  • Enjoyed

• Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Enough
  • Independent
  • Common

• I like to keep the world, to some degree, an implied setting.

  

  Paul S. Kemp
  • World
  • Degrees
  • Implied

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