Quotes
Quotes about Formula
It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.
The best-selling formula for our times insists on the combination of frank sex and technical information. The reader enjoys the sex, and, if he feels any shame in this, it can dissolve in a sense of virtue that he is learning how an airport is run, or a bank, or the White House, or a nuclear installation.
Formula for success: Underpromise and overdeliver.
Formula for success: Underpromise and overdeliver.
Two step formula for handling stress: 1. Don't sweat the small stuff. 2. Remember that it's all small stuff.
Formula for success: Underpromise and overdeliver.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
What you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
[Magic] is not mere superstition. It can corrupt people who otherwise carry on their daily duties with apparent reasonableness and common sense... It exploits man's urgent desire for all the material good things of lifeâhealth, prosperity, success, "good luck"âand at times, it may even descend to aggressive acts against one's competitors and supposed enemies and rivals. It rests upon an assumption, not always explicit, that divine power can be manipulated and used for human ends. And it is the more dangerous among people who assume that since God is love, He will do whatever they ask, provided they use the right formula in asking. Magic mocks God's freedom no less than His purpose. For it binds men more and more in a prison of fear and selfishness. Far from liberating divine power, it shuts out the free and creative forces of love and self-sacrifice that alone ennoble life and remove the alienation of men one from another. Love, not compulsion, casts out fear.
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure. â¢Mrs. Charles E. Cowman To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. â¢James Allen All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. â¢Jean-Paul Sartre No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. â¢Amar Gopal Bose He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. â¢Joseph Heller Failure is the tuition you pay for success. â¢Walter Brunell Success is never final, but failure can be. â¢Bill Parcells Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. â¢George Washington Carver I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time. â¢Michael Jordan Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. â¢Confucius The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. â¢Francis Picabia You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. â¢Walt Disney Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. â¢Rosalind Russell My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. â¢Abraham Lincoln Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts. â¢George R. Tilton I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. â¢George S. Patton There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. â¢Barbara Ward Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. â¢German Proverb A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. â¢J. Paul Getty Failure is not fatal; victory is not success. â¢Tony Richardson Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. â¢Louis Boone Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. â¢Jim Rohn There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. â¢Laurence J. Peter If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. â¢Robert H. Schuller Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. â¢Truman Capote There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. â¢Sri Swami Sivananda Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. â¢Joe Paterno Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. â¢Robert Louis Stevenson Failures are like skinned kneesâ painful, but superficial. â¢H. Ross Perot I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failureâ which is try to please everybody. â¢Herbert B. Swope Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. â¢Zig Ziglar A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.
The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.
Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.
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.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.
Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.
If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
