All Quotes

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
‐‐ Thomas Merton

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
‐‐ Ronald Fisher

To contemplate is to look at shadows.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.
‐‐ Robert Byrd

To continue down the path of comprehensiveness, Wikipedia will need to sustain the astonishing mass fervor of its birth years. Will that be possible? No one knows.
‐‐ James Gleick

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.
‐‐ Jose Saramago

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.
‐‐ Gustav Stresemann

To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

To convince another part of the world that Bollywood is not just jokers who break into song and dance was very difficult. I'm literally ploughing the ground and making people understand that Indian actors are not a joke.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.
‐‐ Evita Peron

To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.
‐‐ James Cameron

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
‐‐ Charles Churchill

To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.
‐‐ Ameen Rihani

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
‐‐ Albert Camus

To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.
‐‐ Mark Leibovich

To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all.
‐‐ Vladimir Potanin

To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.
‐‐ Caroline Lawrence

To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.
‐‐ Dries van Noten

To create a comedy major, I ended up starting a comedy night in the basement of my dorm, and I promoted and produced my final project, which meant I faxed press releases from an old Apple IIC, or whatever it was, to newspapers, not knowing if that would work or if that's how you do things.
‐‐ Eugene Mirman

To create a fully formed character full of life, struggle, and humanity is tough.
‐‐ Roberto Aguire

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.
‐‐ Bill Gates

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.
‐‐ Shigeru Miyamoto

To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
‐‐ Kate Hudson

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.
‐‐ Jimmy Wales

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
‐‐ Le Corbusier

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
‐‐ Harvey Keitel

To create employment, we need to stimulate the economy, and to stimulate the economy, we need to cut spending and reduce the deficit.
‐‐ Phil Gingrey

To create exponential growth in health care, we need to put tremendous resources and focus behind the best human minds working in this field.
‐‐ Bill Maris

To create greater convergence, we need more intergration.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

To create is to resist; to resist is to create.
‐‐ Stephane Hessel

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley

To create jobs in Montana, we must find ways to reduce the cost of health care delivery.
‐‐ Steve Bullock

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
‐‐ Georgia O'Keeffe

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
‐‐ Giorgio Armani

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
‐‐ Kate Baldwin

To create something you must be something.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.
‐‐ John Dickey

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.
‐‐ Marc Newson

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.
‐‐ Rowan Atkinson

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

To cry on court during a Wimbledon final, you must feel so lonely.
‐‐ Marion Bartoli

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.
‐‐ Sean Connery

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
‐‐ Lewis Mumford

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.
‐‐ Richie Ashburn

To cure ALS medically is not economical. The realities are that it's difficult to find funding for research for a medical cure. I believe in developing technology as opposed to medical research. Technology can be economical.
‐‐ Steve Gleason

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
‐‐ Margaret Thatcher