We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. — Emile M. Cioran
Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality. — Hannah Arendt
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. — Jean Cocteau
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime. — Sufjan Stevens
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. — Wendell Phillips
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. — Robert Smithson
The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion. — Francis Galton
Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck. — Claude C. Hopkins
"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so. — Richard Rorty
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned — George Santayana
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. — Dorothy L. Sayers
The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex. — Giorgio Armani
Short Formulaic Quotes
Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best. — Ronnie Coleman
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. — J. Paul Getty
I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night. — Erin McCarthy
The greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama. — Sathya Sai Baba
I cant really imagine life without Formula One. — Michael Schumacher
I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through." — Eddie Rickenbacker
First-level thinkers, simple formulas, easy answers, success, antithesis — Howard Marks
Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much. — Nigel Mansell
Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is. — Danielle LaPorte
Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions. — William James
Formulaic Image Quotes
Average is a failing formula.
Formula For Success Quotes
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. — Herbert Bayard Swope
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The formula for success is every guy can make a difference for the entire team in whatever his role is. And to do it right, to get it right, is a critical factor in being successful. — Nick Saban
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings — Arthur Rubinstein
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down. — Abraham Lincoln
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure. — Thomas J. Watson
...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition. — Arthur Rubinstein
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that. — Chet Atkins
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. — George A. Sheehan
Formula One Quotes
As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. — Ayrton Senna
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers. — Heinrich Hertz
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it — Friedrich Nietzsche
If I wanted to learn how to race a speed car, I'm not going to go and race with Formula One drivers. I'm going to go to a beginner's class. — Jay Shetty
Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula. — Richard Simmons
It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down. — Mario Andretti
The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end. — Abdu'l-Bahá
Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity - finding an individual formula to apply to one's buildings. — Shigeru Ban
A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles. — Jenson Button
Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part. — Lewis Hamilton
Life Formula Quotes
A lot of people criticize Formula 1 as an unnecessary risk. But what would life be like if we only did what is necessary? — Niki Lauda
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. — Thomas Mann
It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated. — Jerome Bruner
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration. — Henry Moore
Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life. — Alan Cohen
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas. — Ron Paul
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. — Thomas Watson, Jr.
It is the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone, which will live the Christian life in you. Embrace a formula or a list in order to "live the Christian life," and you are doomed to frustration. — Gene Edwards
The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability. — Marshall McLuhan
Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae. — Etty Hillesum
Formula 1 Quotes
There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world. — Jackie Stewart
I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested. — Fernando Alonso
It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn't in the mood to smile. — Sebastian Vettel
Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others. — Ayrton Senna
Formula 1 would be a paradise without the media. — Kimi Raikkonen
If I ever have a son, and if he wants to follow in my footsteps in Formula 1, my main responsibility will be to point out some of the negatives. — Jenson Button
Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement. — Sebastian Vettel
Im an extremist so Im either hated or loved. I think its down to when I first got to Formula One not always knowing what I was saying, saying things that mean one thing but people were taking the other way and then people dont forget. — Lewis Hamilton
I'm delighted to be coming back to Formula 1 after a two-year break, and I'm grateful to Lotus Renault GP for offering me this opportunity. — Kimi Raikkonen
Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion. — Kimi Raikkonen
National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon. — Frantz Fanon
Some people may complicate it for you, but the formula is simple: Love God more than anything else. More than your ego. More than your money. More than your desires...More than your sleep at dawn. Love God more than anything else, and submission comes natural.
Love God more than anything else, and all goodness will follow. — Yasmin Mogahed
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. — Cary Grant
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. — Thomas J. Peters
True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’. — Arthur Rimbaud
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can. — Meryl Streep
We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding. — Roy Barnes
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on. — Citium Zeno
I definitely think the formula to making my character seem sweet is to let him act like a jerk, give him a redeeming moment, and have a sweet song playing over the background when it happens. — Jim Jefferies
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on. — Zeno of Citium
A smart contract is a mechanism involving digital assets and two or more parties, where some or all of the parties put assets in, and assets are automatically redistributed among those parties according to a formula based on certain data that is not known at the time the contract is initiated. — Vitalik Buterin
Then they ask, "Do you want Jesus to come into your heart?" Does it bother anyone that this formula or language is not found in the New Testament? — Paul Washer
I think we can find a formula that would be to everyone's satisfaction, which would make it possible for Croatia to take some more steps and for Europe to accept us into its midst, and for the talks to start. — Stjepan Mesic
All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong. — Carla Hall
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. — Dorothea Brande
At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news. — Bob Schieffer
I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film. — Kabir Bedi
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. — Thomas Carlyle
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