300 Quotes on Study

• Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

  Author: Xun Zi

• I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

  Author: Xun Zi

• Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

  Author: Jiang Zemin

• There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.

  Author: Ovadia Yosef

• I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

  Author: Andrew Wyeth

• We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.

  Author: Gary Wright

• Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

  Author: Frank Wright

• Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.

  Author: William Wills

• You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

  Author: William Wills

• I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

  Author: Esther Williams

• I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!

  Author: Michael Welch

• I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours.

  Author: James Welch

• I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.

  Author: Ben Webster

• No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

  Author: Archibald Wavell

• If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

  Author: Alan Watts

• The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• I didn't study acting.

  Author: Ray Walston

• Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

  Author: Richard Wall

• My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

  Author: A. Vogt

• Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able to incorporate a little bit from the best.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

  Author: Alfred Vigny

• I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.

  Author: Conrad Veidt

• I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time.

  Author: Jim Varney

• The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

  Author: Ninette Valois

• I had gone to school to study marine biology.

  Author: Skeet Ulrich

• Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

  Author: Morihei Ueshiba

• The minister and the priest teach that the organization is greater. No great philosophy has ever come from an organization, but from an individual whose research has been a personal study of God and ITS ways.

  Author: Paul Twitchell

• Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• Study men, not historians.

  Author: Harry Truman

• For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

  Author: Randy Travis

• Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

  Author: Clyde Tombaugh

• To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

  Author: Edward Thorndike

• Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.

  Author: John Thorn

• I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!

  Author: Sean Thomas

• I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

  Author: Twyla Tharp

• If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

  Author: Randall Terry

• You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.

  Author: Julie Taymor

• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  Author: A. Taylor

• He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  Author: A. Taylor

• I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

  Author: Quentin Tarantino

• In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

  Author: Koichi Tanaka

• Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.

  Author: Henry Sweet

• I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.

  Author: Joan Sutherland

• We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.

  Author: Larry Summers

• You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

  Author: Theodore Sturgeon

• When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

  Author: Theodore Sturgeon

• It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.

  Author: Bjarne Stroustrup

• Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.

  Author: Tara Strong

• I study history in order to give an interpretation.

  Author: Oliver Stone

• It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

  Author: George Stigler

• All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.

  Author: Alexander Stephens

• If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

  Author: Leslie Stephen

• Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

  Author: Hailee Steinfeld

• Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.

  Author: Howard Staunton

• I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

  Author: Elizabeth Stanton

• I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country.

  Author: Edwin Stanton

• At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

  Author: Carl Spitteler

• If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

  Author: Baruch Spinoza

• This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths.

  Author: William Smith

• Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

  Author: Lamar Smith

• But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

  Author: Goldwin Smith

• The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

  Author: Goldwin Smith

• It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.

  Author: Goldwin Smith

• In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.

  Author: Charlotte Smith

• It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

  Author: Samuel Smiles

• Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

  Author: Samuel Smiles

• Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

  Author: Amy Smart

• I study to learn, to be an educated person.

  Author: Gary Sinise

• The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

  Author: Herbert Simon

• Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.

  Author: Charles Sherrington

• The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

  Author: Percy Shelley

• A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

  Author: Anne Seward

• America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

  Author: Anton Seidl

• The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

  Author: Andres Segovia

• You have to study a great deal to know a little.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.

  Author: Jon Secada

• In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

  Author: Philip Schaff

• To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

  Author: Ferdinand Saussure

• The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

  Author: Ferdinand Saussure

• In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

  Author: Ferdinand Saussure

• It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

  Author: Edward Sapir

• Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.

  Author: Frederick Sanger

• My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

  Author: John Ruskin

• Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

  Author: John Ruskin

• But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

  Author: J. Rushton

• If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

  Author: Rudy Rucker

• I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

  Author: Erno Rubik

• But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

  Author: Isabella Rossellini

• The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

  Author: Jim Rohn

• Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

  Author: Robert Rodriguez

• I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

  Author: Michael Ritchie

• Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

  Author: Samuel Richardson

• The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?

  Author: Ellen Richards

• I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

  Author: Anne Rice

• If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

  Author: Ad Reinhardt

• I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.

  Author: Frederick Reines

• Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

  Author: Henry Reed

• I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.

  Author: Henry Reed

• The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

  Author: William Ramsay

• Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

  Author: Francois Rabelais

• The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.

  Author: Ludwig Quidde

• I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

  Author: Manuel Puig

• Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.

  Author: Paul Prudhomme

• What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

  Author: David Price

• Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

  Author: Alexander Pope

• The proper study of Mankind is Man.

  Author: Alexander Pope

• The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

  Author: Henri Poincare

• Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

  Author: Henri Poincare

• No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

  Author: Plato

• The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

  Author: Kenneth Pike

• According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

  Author: Rick Perry

• Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years.

  Author: Pauley Perrette

• Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

  Author: James Penney

• Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.

  Author: Mike Pence

• Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

  Author: Jean Paul

• If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.

  Author: Talcott Parsons

• Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

  Author: Ed Parker

• The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

  Author: Daniel Palmer

• Study first, play afterwards.

  Author: Daniel Palmer

• Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.

  Author: Richard Owen

• The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.

  Author: Richard Owen

• Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

  Author: Ovid

• If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

  Author: Peter O'Toole

• To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

  Author: William Osler

• Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.

  Author: Carl Orff

• Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.

  Author: Carl Olson

• A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

  Author: Paul Nurse

• Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space.

  Author: Claude Nicollier

• Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.

  Author: Charles Nicole

• I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

  Author: Harold Nicholas

• Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

  Author: Marc Newson

• I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

  Author: Simon Newcomb

• I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would've previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters.

  Author: Corin Nemec

• Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

  Author: Thomas Nashe

• I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

  Author: John Nash, Jr.

• It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.

  Author: Riccardo Muti

• Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

  Author: Miyamoto Musashi

• The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.

  Author: Simon Morris

• Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

  Author: Thomas Moore

• I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

  Author: Michel Montaigne

• My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.

  Author: Luc Montagnier

• There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

  Author: Vaughn Monroe

• What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

  Author: Roscoe Mitchell

• The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

  Author: Maria Mitchell

• Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

  Author: Maria Mitchell

• When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

  Author: Andrea Mitchell

• A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

  Author: Dennis Miller

• The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

  Author: Nelson Miles

• If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

  Author: Thomas Merton

• At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

  Author: Simon Meer

• But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

  Author: James Meade

• Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

  Author: Scott McNealy

• Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.

  Author: Cathy McMorris

• The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems.

  Author: John McHugh

• I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to get a hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a hitter.

  Author: Mark McGwire

• I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

  Author: Roddy McDowall

• I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere.

  Author: Robert McCloskey

• No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.

  Author: Konosuke Matsushita

• You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

  Author: Henri Matisse

• My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

  Author: Harry Mathews

• My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.

  Author: Harry Mathews

• I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

  Author: Wynton Marsalis

• After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

  Author: Rudolph Marcus

• You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.

  Author: Murray Mann

• For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.

  Author: Murray Mann

• Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

  Author: Maimonides

• I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.

  Author: Elle Macpherson

• War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

  Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

• Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.

  Author: Frank Luntz

• Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

  Author: Rich Lowry

• Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

  Author: Pierre Loti

• We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

  Author: Audre Lorde

• You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

  Author: Walter Lord

• I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.

  Author: Mario Lopez

• A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

  Author: Henry Longfellow

• A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

  Author: Vince Lombardi

• He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

  Author: Mary Little

• The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

  Author: Walter Lippmann

• You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

  Author: Maya Lin

• And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.

  Author: Robert Lifton

• I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.

  Author: Robert Lifton

• But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.

  Author: Robert Lifton

• What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it.

  Author: Robert Lifton

• The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things.

  Author: Willy Ley

• I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

  Author: Oscar Levant

• This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.

  Author: Ruggero Leoncavallo

• I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

  Author: Gyorgy Legeti

• To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

  Author: Bruce Lee

• There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.

  Author: Charles Lederer

• The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

  Author: Louis Leakey

• We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

  Author: Henry Lawson

• The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

  Author: David Lawrence

• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

  Author: Walter Landor

• Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

  Author: Norman Lamm

• In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

  Author: Norman Lamm

• At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.

  Author: Norman Lamm

• As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year.

  Author: Norman Lamm

• The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

  Author: Polykarp Kusch

• It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!

  Author: Mila Kunis

• It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

  Author: Joseph Krutch

• I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.

  Author: Lenny Kravitz

• The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

  Author: David Korten

• Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

  Author: Michael Korda

• I don't study; I create.

  Author: Viktor Korchnoi

• I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

  Author: Boris Kodjoe

• The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

  Author: Boris Kodjoe

• This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

  Author: Shirley Knight

• Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

  Author: Gustav Klimt

• It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.

  Author: Lawrence Klein

• Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

  Author: Allen Klein

• It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.

  Author: Allen Klein

• I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

  Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

• Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

  Author: William Kirby

• I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia.

  Author: William Kirby

• A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

  Author: John Keynes

• The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

  Author: George Kennan

• It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

  Author: Kevin Kelly

• Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.

  Author: Mary Jones

• No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

  Author: Phillip Johnson

• I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

  Author: Karl Jaspers

• I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

  Author: Karl Jaspers

• To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

  Author: William James

• As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

  Author: C. James

• Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

  Author: Roman Jakobson

• Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.

  Author: Ernest Istook

• One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

  Author: Daniel Inouye

• The proper study of mankind is books.

  Author: Aldous Huxley

• Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

  Author: William Hurt

• Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.

  Author: Ellsworth Huntington

• Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

  Author: Vernon Howard

• There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

  Author: Edward Hopper

• Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

  Author: Ernest Holmes

• I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.

  Author: Judy Holliday

• The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

  Author: Utada Hikaru

• To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

  Author: Hermann Hesse

• The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

  Author: Don Herold

• The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

  Author: Jesse Helms

• For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

  Author: Lafcadio Hearn

• There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.

  Author: Lafcadio Hearn

• If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

  Author: William Hazlitt

• I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

  Author: Jeff Hawkins

• Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

  Author: Jupiter Hammon

• If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

  Author: John Haldane

• There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.

  Author: Charlie Haden

• Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

  Author: Marilyn Hacker

• So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.

  Author: Albert Gyorgyi

• According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

  Author: Luis Gutierrez

• Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.

  Author: David Guterson

• The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

  Author: Stanislav Grof

• After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

  Author: Josh Groban

• While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

  Author: Daniel Goleman

• Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

  Author: William Godwin

• Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

  Author: Seth Godin

• If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

  Author: Alma Gluck

• In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.

  Author: Alma Gluck

• Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

  Author: Alma Gluck

• One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

  Author: Alma Gluck

• There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

  Author: Jean Giraudoux

• Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

  Author: Walter Gilbert

• Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?

  Author: Theodore Gericault

• There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.

  Author: Bob Geldof

• I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

  Author: Marvin Gaye

• We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did.

  Author: Daryl Gates

• It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.

  Author: John Gardner

• We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.

  Author: James Galway

• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

  Author: Daisy Fuentes

• I don't think the process was successful and should be inspected closer. I am not afraid to say I am not familiar with the entire process, so before commenting further I would have to study the process more in depth.

  Author: Vincent Frank

• There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no.

  Author: Connie Francis

• You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

  Author: Anatole France

• To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

  Author: Matthew Fox

• I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

  Author: Lukas Foss

• I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

  Author: Maureen Forrester

• I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

  Author: Luke Ford

• If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.

  Author: Shelby Foote

• A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

  Author: Mark Foley

• No study is possible on the battlefield.

  Author: Ferdinand Foch

• Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.

  Author: Ruth First

• The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management.

  Author: Tom Felton

• Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.

  Author: Millicent Fawcett

• Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

  Author: Evan Esar

• Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

  Author: Richard Ernst

• When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

  Author: Epictetus

• I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

  Author: Philip Emeagwali

• You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.

  Author: Odysseus Elytis

• I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

  Author: Chiwetel Ejiofor

• We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and."

  Author: Arthur Eddington

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