Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

I don't hold water with that theory

I don't like writing essays or theory.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.

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

If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers

If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.’

If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

If you go with Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message, as soon as you're hosting a blooper show, you're done.

I got sunburnt which is obviously a drag for me because in theory the sun is supposed to kill me.

I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves.

I have a theory that among the large Western companies (mostly American) the higher an executive is promoted, the more wisdom is lost and by the time he or she reaches the top becomes a complete idiot. Certainly they do not deserve the outrageous salary.

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

I have a theory that you can decide to make whatever day it is a good day.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

I have a theory that theories are destructive.

I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher

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

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.

I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

I heard this theory once that love means your subconscious is attracted to someone else’s subconscious.

I just know that there are two theories when arguing with women. And neither one works.

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

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.