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Quotes About Formula

I never thought about making music because it has to be a hit. There are so many better singers out there who are better trained in music, but I am probably the chosen one... I have not discovered any formula for staying relevant.
~ Atif Aslam
That's probably the key to our success and our longevity, sticking to our formula and what we do best, the hardcore Mobb Deep sound, rather than chasing trains. But we're always experimenting with the art and the creativity of hip-hop.
~ Prodigy
The Victorians did not have some secret formula, since lost, about how to expect the best of marriage and still put up with the worst. Rather, they were much more accepting than we are today of a huge gap between rhetoric and reality, expectation and actual experience. In large part, this was because they had no other choice.
~ Stephanie Coontz
times weaker. This can be expressed with the formula
~ Bill Bryson
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an objective correlative; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.
~ T.S. Eliot
Those who harbour illusions about the possibility of a purely political struggle and the power of this or that formula or system, with no new human quality as its exact counterpart, have learned no lessons from the past.
~ Julius Evola
A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula.
~ Reed Morano
I completely work on the basis of my intuition. I don't think I premeditate a success formula. There is no formula to make a successful film.
~ Rajkumar Hirani
Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.
~ Frank Oski
The farmer is endeavoring to solve the problem of a livelihood by a formula more complicated than the problem itself. To get his shoestrings he speculates in herds of cattle.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The most distinct and beautiful statement of any form must take at last the mathematical form.We might so simplify the rules of moral philosophy, as well as of arithmetic, that one formula would express them both
~ Henry David Thoreau
I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.
~ Raekwon
Arnold Sommerfeld generalized Bohr's model to include elliptical orbits in three dimensions. He treated the problem relativistically (using Einstein's formula for the increase of mass with velocity), ... According to historian Max Jammer, this success of Sommerfeld's fine-structure formula "served also as an indirect confirmation of Einstein's relativistic formula for the velocity dependence of inertia mass.
~ Stephen G. Brush
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
~ Stephen Gardiner
The formula for success is Cosmic Ordering, the formula for failure is worry.
~ Stephen Richards
the conspirators had completed experiments on potent liquid explosives manufactured from hydrogen peroxide, hexamine, and citric acid. Their formula could disguise a powerful bomb as a colored sports drink, to be detonated by ordinary AA batteries.
~ Steve Coll
It is a formula that binds the victim to his victimization by linking his power to his status as a victim
~ Michael Shellenberger
Here's my author advice: There is no magic pill, so you just have to do the research and the work. Well, coffee is kind of like magic, and energy helps do the research, so maybe that's my secret magic formula.
~ Michelle M. Pillow
Roughly speaking, the greater the value of the metric tensor, the greater the crumpling of the sheet. No mattet how crumpled the sheet of paper, the metric tensor gives us a simple means of measuring its curvature at any point. If we flattened the crumpled sheet completely, then we would retrieve the formula of Pythagoras.
~ Michio Kaku
I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.
~ Ashton Kutcher
In fact, it's hard to find an arena of public life where the innocence formula isn't a factor, providing a fast and easy shortcut to both purity and superiority.
~ Brian D. McLaren
In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow wizards had reasoned that, in that case, the whole business could be sorted out if only they could find a formula that caused him to hallucinate that he was completely sane.* *This is a very common hallucination, shared by most people.
~ Terry Pratchett
Some long ago when we were taught That for whatever kind of puzzle you got You just stick the right formula in A solution for every fool
~ the Indigo Girls
For Aristotle's essentialist definitions are the principles from which all our knowledge is derived; they thus contain all our knowledge; and they serve to substitute a long formula for a short one. As opposed to this, the scientific or nominalist definitions do not contain any knowledge whatever, not even any 'opinion'; they do nothing but introduce new arbitrary shorthand labels; they cut a long story short.
~ Karl R. Popper