Best 60 quotes in «formal quotes» category

Formal art is essentially rational.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I want a formal apology from the mayor.

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

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

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

Morality, when formal, devours.

My father had very little formal education.

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

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.

We don't have formal training, that makes what we're experiencing a little bit more accessible to the viewers. If we actually knew what we were doing ahead of time, it would just be like talking at you, instead of experiencing the situation with you.

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.

Mysteries are facts that haven't been formalized.

What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.

What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.

Beauty is not about being Formal or Stylish, it's rather about how you think of yourself in front of mirror!

Formal business situations are likely to be the least revealing because these are the times when all of us are most likely to have our ‘game faces' on.