Quotes with apply

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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Socrates Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Lee Iacocca People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot People want to see patterns in the world. It is how we evolved. We descended from those primates who were best at spotting the telltale pattern of a predator in the forest, or of food in the savannah. So important is this skill that we apply it everywhere, warranted or not.
    The (Mis)Behavior of Markets Ch. 12, p. 245
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • James Thurber The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Confucius The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • B. F. Skinner The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Denis Waitley The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Greg LeMond There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.
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  • Bryan Batt There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Leon Trotsky There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Josh Billings There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Francis Bacon They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Brian Tracy Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lucretius Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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