By Example Quotes
The trick is to realize that one is not important, except insofar as one’s example can serve to elucidate a more widespread human trait and make readers feel a little less lonely and freakish.
Whenever I go overseas I buy funny eyelashes. For example the same brand that are in Japan and England are different styles. So I bought both.
I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.
You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, and demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.
Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.
I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.
No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.
Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.
A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.
A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.
All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.
I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.
The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a long time.
I feel that by getting rich in the way I did, I think my own example has hurt my own country.
Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.
Live a life that will help others spiritually, intellectually, physically, financially and relationally. Live a life that serves as a example of what an exceptional life can look like.
There are a lot of people who do crazy things without necessarily being crazy, for example crossing the Atlantic solo. Some crazy things which requires you not to be crazy to achieve them.
I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee -- especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink.
I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.
It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.
I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us.
One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.
The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.
A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'
General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.
Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
Jesus was a doer, and not only a talker. He led the way by example. He showed us how to live and minister to others.
On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.
I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not.
For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.
An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.
A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.
So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.
It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.
Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.
I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.
As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.
Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.
As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.
I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
There are a lot of areas where we cooperate, fight against ISIL, for example. Here, Germany was able to contribute to a certain extent in certain areas.