Best 60 quotes in «formal quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Formal art is essentially rational.

Mysteries are facts that haven't been formalized.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Morality, when formal, devours.

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

My father had very little formal education.

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

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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