Theory Quotes

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

I prefer to subscribe to that whole, “everything happens for a reason” theory, mostly because the alternative is too disturbing to think about.

Manipulating situations is one thing, but lying is another. My theory (especially with girls) is that if you don't lie, you can't be held responsible for anything bad that goes down.

Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative [sic] atomic theory.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

Periods. We all get periods. Once a month, yeah. That's what the theory is

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.

[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem.

When I was in film school I was learning more theory than practice.

Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.

I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

I'm maybe too rude with myself but the fact is that I don't know music theory so I can't tell myself "it's ok now I make good stuff," I need to improve more and more.

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth.

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.

Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.

My theory on education is... get one.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

Tomorrow is an assumption; it is just a theory! We must wait for tomorrow to see whether tomorrow is real or not!

When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.

It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

The aim of academic trade theory is to tell students, "Look at the model, not at how nations actually develop." So of all the branches of economic theory, trade theory is the most wrongheaded.

He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could lead to paragraphs of theory.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").

There are many ways of communicating. Some hold the theory that new forms of communication between people can be obtained through hallucinogenic drugs.

A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood on its head.

Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers cry,we are forced to invent our own unique method.

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot.

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?