logo

Quotes About Formation

To be young was to be more closely rooted to the thing that forms you,
~ Rachel Kushner
We have fifty billion neurons in the cerebellum that deal with skill formation, billions in the cortex that perform the transformations for perception and rational planning, but only about eighty thousand spindle cells dealing with high-level emotions.
~ Ray Kurzweil
As a coach, you look for the elements. Sort of like a chemist, you want to say, 'Okay, here we have all of the parts,' and make what you think will be a successful line.
~ Barry Trotz
Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.
~ Penny Junor
Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.
~ Howard Staunton
On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.
~ Stephen Hunter
When something assembles itself that fast, it's clear it's been composing itself somewhere in the unknowable back of the mind for a long time.
~ Rebecca Solnit
The word lost comes from the Old Norse los, meaning the disbanding of an army and this origin suggests soldiers falling out of formation to go home, a truce with the wide world. I worry now that many people never disband their armies never go beyond what they know.
~ Rebecca Solnit
A crowd isn't formed after people gather; people gather after the crowd forms.
~ K?b? Abe
the forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present
~ Karl Marx
The essential condition for the existence and sway of the bourgeoisie class,is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labor.
~ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
~ William James
Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.
~ Mark Knopfler
I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since
~ Boyd Rice
I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
~ Mamata Banerjee
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
~ Lucretius
Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
~ Anne Carson
And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party.
~ Alice Cooper
Therefore we must give a certain character to our activities. . . . In short, the habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
~ William J. Bennett
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
~ William James
THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT: A SIMPLE FORMATION Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence, either in the necessity of its own nature or in an external cause. If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God. The universe exists. Therefore, the explanation of the universe's existence is God.
~ William Lane Craig