Quotes on Example

Author: Aesop

I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.

Author: Maurice Ashley

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

Author: Dave Barry

Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.

Author: Peter Bart

The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors.

Author: Maria Bartiromo

I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.

Author: Ned Beatty

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

Author: Ulrich Beck

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

Author: Adrian Belew

There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.

Author: Sepp Blatter

To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.

Author: Walther Bothe

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Author: Christian Bovee

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

Author: Malcolm Boyd

We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.

Author: Lloyd Bridges

For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series.

Author: Frank Bruno

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Author: Edmund Burke

It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example.

Author: Lauren Bush

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

Author: George Carlin

Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.

Author: Frank Carlucci

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.

Author: Francis Crick

To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

Author: Edwidge Danticat

We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space.

Author: Lincoln Davis

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

Author: Arthur Doyle

There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that.

Author: Lawrence Eagleburger

An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign.

Author: Ben Edwards

For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.

Author: Mark Foley

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

Author: Dawn Fraser

Why do I jave to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.

Author: Bob Gibson

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.

Author: Daniel Goleman

The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see.

Author: David Gower

I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.

Author: Wavy Gravy

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

Author: Andrew Greeley

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

Author: Daniel Greenberg

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

Author: Marilyn Hacker

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

Author: Charlton Heston

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

Author: Nazim Hikmet

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

Author: Edmund Husserl

For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries.

Author: Bob Inglis

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

Author: Steve Irwin

For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.

Author: Roman Jakobson

Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

Author: Lara John

For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.

Author: Stephen Kleene

For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese.

Author: Andy Lau

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

Author: Louis Leakey

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

Author: Rich Lowry

I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example.

Author: Tobey Maguire

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.

Author: Thabo Mbeki

And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

Author: Robert McChesney

Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.

Author: Angela Merkel

There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

Author: Ralph Merkle

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

Author: Matthew Modine

A good example is far better than a good precept.

Author: Dwight Moody

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

Author: Robert Morgan

And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves.

Author: George Norris

There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.

Author: Ed O'Brien

I'm very much a lead by example person.

Author: Alexandra Paul

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Author: Ron Paul

Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

Author: Phaedrus

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

Author: Michael Polanyi

There is no teaching to compare with example.

Author: Robert Powell

What we have achieved is a good example of how the right policies deliver.

Author: Rodrigo Rato

We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.

Author: Ed Rendell

The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.

Author: Dennis Rodman

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

Author: Sonny Rollins

Let's take flight simulation as an example. If you're trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You don't have to get in an airplane until late in the process.

Author: Roy Romer

I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.

Author: Maximilian Schell

Salt is a preservative. It really holds flavor. For example, if you chop up some fresh herbs, or even just garlic, the salt will extract the moisture and preserve the flavor.

Author: Sally Schneider

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Author: Albert Schweitzer

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

Author: Andrew Shue

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

Author: Don Shula

I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.

Author: Marc Singer

The most powerful moral influence is example.

Author: Huston Smith

Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.

Author: Stanley Spencer

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

Author: Payne Stewart

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

Author: Lawrence Taylor

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

Author: Fred Thompson

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Author: Mark Twain

Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

Author: Joseph Wambaugh

Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom.

Author: Peter Weir

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

Author: Rebecca West

And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.

Author: Tobias Wolff

Let your actions speak louder than your words, for a true leader leads by example.

Author: Gabriella Singh