Degrees Quotes

In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and Ive managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

I have a degree in finance and these things kind of all go beyond me in a sense. I have a degree from a long time ago before computers.

When it comes to success in business, an MBA degree is optional. But a GSD, which is only earned by Getting Stuff Done, is required.

I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.

What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

How a kidnapping ends depends to a large degree on who the kidnappers are.

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

We need to do as much as we can from every direction or we will surpass that two-degree climate increase. Actually, the science is showing we are already en route to surpassing two degrees.

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

Major heat wave in India - 122 degrees today. It was so hot people in India were sweating like Americans waiting to hear if their job is being outsourced to India.

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.

You can assess a culture to a degree by the way they receive movies and how they receive a given celebrity.

Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it.

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.

I find it so easy to read qualified commentators who are 180 degrees opposed to each other.

University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.

In varying degrees, the authority of the dharma was replaced by the authority of the guru, who came, in some traditions, to assume the role of the Buddha himself.

As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.

The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

The center of the earth is about a million degrees.

The degree of sympathy we feel regarding another's fiasco is directly proportional to how easy or difficult it is for us to imagine ourselves, under like circumstances, making a similar mistake.

There’s simply nothing in there that would justify second degree murder.

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

Don't need a degree in rocket science to do this job.

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.