Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Whorf

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

Davis III

It determines who's thinking the best, who's the most patient, who's more determined.

Dan Penick

From what I'm told going hard in practice is what determines how much playing time you get. I'll just get up there and work hard and hopefully I'll get in there.

Roland Martin

I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.

Lee Smolin

How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.

Colleen Atwood

The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story.

Jeff Wilkinson

I think what y'all do is vital to our community. I think we're fooling ourselves if we think the square foot (of a house) determines the characteristic of a neighborhood. I hope this passes tonight. One-size-fits-all may have been appropriate at one time, but now we may be in a situation where one size doesn't fit anymore.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

David A. R. White

You make a product, and you put it out, and you do it with as much excellence and also wisdom as possible, and then it's the Lord that drives it and determines where it will go.

Antoine Lavoisier

Languages are true analytical methods.

David Aaron

It is a question of putting into the text the language of our accord.

Wanda Peterson

Last summer I took a sign language class. There was a project where I was in a group. I was treated just like the other students (in the group).

Bertrand Russell

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

Veda Upanishads

It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

Joe Torre

I think that's personality more than anything. (Hideki) Matsui is so different and he's got the language barrier, too.

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think so, because of the language that had to be learned and understood. The last thing you get is the technique because the language you can put together. But to be able to put the fundamentals together at the speed necessary to be successful takes some time. You can't have a lot of thought going through your mind.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

Benoit Mandelbrot

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.

Charles James

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

Ben Kingsley

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

Alexis Arguello

When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

Adam Carolla

Maybe it's weird, but I don't feel in any way, shape or form that I'm taking over his show.

A. J. Jacobs

Behavior shapes beliefs.