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In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered.

I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.

In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers.

Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard Drive.

In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.

In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects with reproducible properties is called mathematics.

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.

In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.

In the study of management, unfortunately, many writers have been so anxious to articulate a theory in the form of, "If you do this, this will result," that they never go through this careful effort.

In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a muscle; when exercised it becomes stronger.

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

I offer early Christianity as a case-study to show that the phenomena that we group under "religion(s)" comprise a somewhat artificial category, and that "religions" are not "all the same.

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

I Preserve the nonviable embryo in formaldehyde for future study. Lord Maccon has been drinking my samples. When confronted, he admitted to be enjoying both the refreshing beverage and the 'crunchy pickled snack' as well. I was not pleased" (Professor Lyall to Madame Lefoux)

I really like Woody Allen, I really like John Cassavetes, and I really like movies that are super-naturalistic. I studied film studies in college, but I slept through all the movies, and I love film but I don't have a lot to reference. And so I don't know what my influences are and I don't know where this came from at all.

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

I remember during my lifetime I would meet women, and it was almost like God would say to me, 'Now, this woman here is not the one you are going to end up with, but she is going to be a lot like this woman; look at this woman, study this woman.' And when my wife showed up, He was like, 'You recognize her now?'

I said, "Oh well, I'll act." I started to study, but I didn't know what I was doing, and I don't know that I was taking it very seriously then.

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.

I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the internet, look at what they doing, then I look at ways to defeat them.

I started studying filmmakers, and I would say early on the ones that really inspired me the most were like the field magicians of music videos.

I study a lot of the greats; I study the current people out now and what people are listening to now. I don't shun anything away; I just check it all out and make my own judgment.

I study the Bible and spend time on the Internet.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

It Bible opens up the doors in your life, and provides a purifying dynamic to help you clean out sin and learn to conform to God's will.

It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.

It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.

I taught Bible Study, and there was period where I thought all of my beliefs were right, and everybody who disagreed with me was wrong.

I think confidence is something you build gradually, with experience. I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and made such good grades was because I lacked confidence. I never felt that I was prepared to take an examination, and I had to study a little bit extra.

It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.