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Quotes About Formation

For, adds Barba, those who think that metals were created at the beginning of of the world are grossly mistaken: metals 'grow' in mines.
~ Mircea Eliade
All caves begin with rain. The rain mixes with gas. The new acidic water eats through rocks, and tiny fractures grow into passageways. Eventually—after many thousands of years—these passageways might create an opening large enough for a man.
~ Mitch Albom
Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
~ Mortimer Adler
Now there is no other way of forming a habit of operation than by operating.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
rules through which you may form the habits you desire:
~ Napoleon Hill
At the beginning of the formation of a new habit, put force and enthusiasm into expressing what you want to become. Feel what you think.
~ Napoleon Hill
Myths and legends, either about divinities or the formation and history of peoples and races, began to look like pictures on a jigsaw puzzle, slightly different from one another but always built with the same pieces, though not in the same order.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I started in a 4-3-3 formation at Ajax, playing in left midfield. There, you need to be just as involved defensively as you are going forward. You attack and you defend, and that allows you to be a complete player.
~ Edgar Davids
If I was to play on the left, I'd rather play there if there was three in midfield.
~ Danny Welbeck
I think that Sarri's formation and playing with a midfield three have been fundamental for me.
~ Jorginho
According to Buddhism, we are dealing with samyojana, the lump of suffering within us that is translated as an "internal formation." When you say something that makes another person suffer, that person develops an "internal formation.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The early Christian historical memory was formed on three land masses -Asia, Africa and Europe. In this respect it does not differ from textually recorded human history, which formed in the conjunction between these three great spaces. Only three, not seven.
~ Thomas C. Oden
vascular patterning
~ Kathy Reichs
Another oft-used argument is that pillow lavas should be found on Mt. Ararat if it formed underwater. For those unfamiliar with pillow lavas, they are formed when a volcanic eruption occurs underwater. The lavas that come in contact with water cause it to harden quickly in masses that look "like a pillow.
~ Ken Ham
Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is: "Formation, Transformation, Eternal Mind's eternal recreation.
~ C.G. Jung
We are what we make ourselves
~ Genevieve Cogman
his removal was universally welcomed in the navy, not least by that old salt, George V. The formation of the new government was most desirable, since 'Only by that means can we get rid of Churchill from Admiralty,' the king told the queen. 'He is the real danger' and 'has become impossible'.
~ Geoffrey Wheatcroft
most of the iron that has found its way into the Earth's core and its surface rocks - and into our own blood, as well - once existed in white dwarfs that exploded
~ Isaac Asimov
When we formed Bad Company, I looked around and asked, 'Who is the biggest rock band in the world?' The answer was undoubtedly Led Zeppelin. Peter Grant was their manager, so we got him to work with us. That made the difference for Bad Company.
~ Paul Rodgers
Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.
~ John A. Macdonald
How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success.
~ Charles Swindoll
With a mammogram - as great as they are, and they do save a lot of lives - if you have very dense breasts, it really can't see if there is something in there. There are other tests, including an MRI, that can really go into the tissue and really see cell formation and hot spots, and that's what you want to see before it becomes a tumor.
~ Christina Applegate
What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991.
~ Chris Cornell
The Raspberries was formed as kind of a reaction to prog rock, which we didn't like. 'Let's bring some songwriting and harmonies back to music' And we did that.
~ Eric Carmen