Formal Quotes

You don't need a formal prayer or invocation to call the angels to your side. Simply think, 'Angels, please surround me,' and they are there.

Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.

The plain, unvarnished truth is, that every one of us needs the accountability that comes from formal, regular, intimate relationships with other godly people.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

Morality, when formal, devours.

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road. You never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.

I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.

Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.

To be an ally is a formal military alliance. And we have a formal military alliance in NATO. But we are partners with other countries all across the world. And they're - they will be a partner.

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

You might be a redneck if you have a very special baseball cap, just for formal occasions.

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

With self-discipline, all things are possible

Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.