Theory Quotes

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.

Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory.

The 9/11 Commission Report is fatally flawed. The major conclusions of The 9/11 Commission Report, the official, conspiracy theory, are false.

The biggest thing is to create a product that consumers find useful. As more and more people like something, it becomes harder and harder to have a conspiracy theory about it.

No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.

I think it's a theory... the theory of evolution and I don't accept it as a theory.

There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

Einstein didn't speak until he was four, leading most of his teachers to believe he was crazy. That is until he whipped out the theory of relativity. BAYUM! Showed you guys.

I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.

On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.

Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself.

When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which decides what we can observe.

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.

In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me.

The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.

Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.

I never studied film theory, so I don't know the terminology.

Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.

That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.