Best 60 quotes in «formal quotes» category

Mysteries are facts that haven't been formalized.

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.

Not being well-paid is even more painful to those who are obliged to come to work well-dressed.

Whether one is formally educated or self educated; the cornerstone of success is education.

By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

You know that when a police officer refuses to produce formal identification on request, they are probably engaging in some form of corruption.

Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

Formal art is essentially rational.

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal.

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be treated as a semiformal occasion.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.

I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

I certainly love a boogie and once the music starts I'm usually one of the first out there on the dance floor. Although I haven't had any formal dance training and something tells me I'm really going to notice the difference.

I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition.

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.

I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road. You never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.

Morality, when formal, devours.

My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

I want a formal apology from the mayor.

My father had very little formal education.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

The goal of formal education has always been to produce people who could continue to learn on their own.

The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

This Being out of God cannot, by any means, be a limited, completed, and inert Being, since God himself is not such a dead Being, but, on the contrary, is Life; but it can only be a Power, since only a Power is the true formal picture or Schema of Life. And indeed it can only be the Power of realising that which is contained in itself a Schema.

The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.

The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.