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If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going to New Jersey - the world's loudest and biggest pipe organ.

I found great value in teaching students from the outset of their studies how to draw very realistically. Otherwise, you're starting deep into the alphabet instead of having started at the start. If you discard essential things like drawing, design, color and so on at the beginning, then you're just sort of floating out in space, without any basis to work from.

If the kundalini is flowing through you at a very rapid rate, if you are not in harmony with the dharma, then you will have great problems with the study.

If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

If we always thought like that, why would we study physics, why would we think of cosmology, why would we do any kind of research? Because we know already so much that there is no one person who can contain all that information.

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 we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

If you are a physician and someone comes to see you with an absolutely incapacitating headache or a swollen arm, you don't tell them, "Come back in 10 years when I've completed my study and I'll see what I can do for you.

If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.

If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

If you're a dancer, study singing.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.

If you study the behavior or the attitude of Syria, Iran, and U.S., you understand that these three countries can't come to terms with each other.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.

If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

If you will scoff at language study how, save in terms of language, will you scoff?

If you want to be healthy study health... if you want to be wealthy, study wealth... if you want to be happy, study happiness.

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say I want to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

If you want to study writing, read Dickens

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how can you possibly be happy? That is why you have got to study Zen...or something.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

I had felt the shot coming; I hadn't realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had been studying him, stockpiling knowledge as ammunition?

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.

I have come across a dozen studies that shows that you get more phytonutrients and more minerals and vitamins from organic, but there are also studies that show that plants raised conventionally have more phytonutrients. And they trace it to the amount of nitrogen in the fertilizer used on conventional farms. The gold standard is choosing the most nutritious varieties and raising them organically, and that's what I recommend.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

I hope Americans will read and study the Bible in the coming year. It's my firm belief that the enduring values, as I say, presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation.

I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.

I know how men think when they're not responding to questions in a clinical study.

I invite [journalists] to seriously study the facts of Guadalupe. The Madonna is there. I cannot find another explanation.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

I know my priorities... I love music and I will continue to make songs, I know it's not just a period in my life. But I am focused on my studies.