Quotes About Formation

At the time of the formation of the euro, I would say most American economists said that's not a good idea; that's not a currency area that makes sense. And the answer from Europe was, 'How is Missouri and Mississippi a currency area?' But the flaw in that was not recognizing the importance of mobility.

Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.

My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.

Moreover, stable prices foster saving and capital formation, because when the risk of erosion of asset values resulting from inflation—and the need to guard against such losses—are minimized, households are encouraged to save more and businesses are encouraged to invest more. (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 2009)

Little Wooster, Ohio and gargantuan Dallas, Texas formed the municipal cocktail of my life up till age 18. That drab, weird little town and the glitzy big one shaped me for sure.

as life is a story, so also is spiritual formation a story—a journey from earth to heaven.

The first principle of spiritual formation is this: A spiritually formed person loves God and others.

When an idea is fully formed in your head, there's no escaping the fact that for the idea to change the world, it has to leave your brain—a journey that only happens with hard work and dedication.

the crows turned, and its eyes flashed with fire. A blood-chilling caw cracked the brittle air. Rachel slid her machete from its canvas sheath, but the crow veered wildly and then rejoined the broken formation heading south toward the distant city of mutants. DeVontay Jones chuckled

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.

What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.

builded by the water-drip from a stalactite

A]t bottom it is the same with traveling as with reading. How often do we complain that we cannot remember one thousandth part of what we read! In both cases, however, we may console ourselves with the reflection that the things we see and read make an impression on the mind before they are forgotten, and so contribute to its formation and nurture…

Speaking the words aloud so they would exist in the world and begin to become real.

the bigger the top, the bigger the drop. The longer this bearish formation takes to form, the more powerful the eventual downmov e will be. While all head-and-shoulder top patterns are negative, one that forms in three weeks isn't as powerful as one that unfolds over a nine-month span.

Let us begin by saying that no two symmetriads are alike and that the geometry of each is, as it were, an "invention" of the living ocean. So then, the symmetriad produces in its interior things that are often called "instant machines," though these formations bear no resemblance to machines constructed by people — the term only refers to a certain "mechanical" purposiveness of operation.

I am who I am not because of an essential self hidden away in the core of my being but because of the unprecedented and unrepeatable matrix of conditions that have formed me. The more I delve into this mystery of who I am (or what anything is)

The Hallelujahs are a lovely visual concept, ins in part by the Huang Shan Mountains of China, specta karst limestone formations that themselves look too deli vertical to exist.

The earth was initially very hot and without an atmosphere. In the course of time it cooled and acquired an atmosphere from the emission of gases from the rocks.

The earth was initially very hot and without an atmosphere.

Bodies such as stars or black holes cannot just appear out of nothing. But a whole universe can.

I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)

In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.