Quotes with formal

  • Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
  • The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.

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  • Albert Einstein It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Emily Dickinson After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Barbara Kruger Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Andy Hertzfeld But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Jim Rohn Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Albert Einstein Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Alain de Botton I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli I love a modern suit paired with a polo or cotton T-shirt... and then paired with leather sneakers, or cashmere joggers with a tailored blazer and a sleeveless puffer vest to get the ultimate informal and formal combination.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Bernard Beckett I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Alberto Giacometti In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Ben Bernanke In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Barney Frank Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'll enjoy it: I've had threats and blackmail, abuse, smears and formal complaints with forged documentation.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ann Druyan My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Mark Twain Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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