Formal Quotes

In all the talk in the Principles (as opposed to the formal analysis) it is not the saving of rentiers but the energy of entrepreneurs which governs accumulation.

Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.

The goal of formal education has always been to produce people who could continue to learn on their own.

Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects.

A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.

I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.

By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition.

Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal".

I love the dynamic contrast between the spontaneous shots and the more formal, pro-rock-star photos.

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.

Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.

[Mujahedeen], by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam.

I have done some formal acting training, because I sucked at acting when I first got to Los Angeles. I'm still one of the worst actors and auditions out there.

There isn't a formal definition of success.

It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.

In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study.

When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.

We saw his [Donald Trump] children appointed this week to formal roles in the transition. A lot of ethics experts looking at that and saying that there is not a blind trust.

Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.

I'm a little of everything, a concerned dad, faith-based guy, businessman, entertainer and journalist. I don't have formal training as a journalist, but I think that works to my advantage.

Words are cold and formal things.

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.

Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.

Bringing undocumented immigrants out from the shadows, putting them into the formal economy will be good, because then employers can't exploit them and undercut Americans' wages.