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Quotes About Formation

I came from Ajax where you play 4-3-3 and as a winger they didn't want you to defend.
~ Ryan Babel
I don't rule out 3-4-3 or other formations depending on the game.
~ Quique Setien
A system depends on the players you have.
~ Louis van Gaal
It's hard to run away from who you are, and when your taste is formed is a very important thing.
~ James Gray
People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.
~ Pep Guardiola
When I've watched teams that play with five at the back and wing-backs, I've looked at their starting positions and positions out of possession because that comes a little bit more unnaturally to me.
~ Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
At noon on Tuesday, August 1, his U.S. Third Army officially came into being, with nine divisions under three corps. At the same instant, Bradley ascended to command the new 12th Army Group, complementing 21st Army Group while still subordinate to Montgomery.
~ Rick Atkinson
Everything is made, but only people make things. I mean, how can a thing exist if it isn't made ? How can a shape be a shape if it isn't shaped ?
~ Rob Davis
If we looked at time and geography from a mountain's perspective, we would have a more profound sense of history, we would be able to see far and wide, and benefit from the experience of people all over the world. If we thought in the way mountains were formed, we would treat the natural world with more respect.
~ Robert Bateman
Knowledge emerged about synapses, neurotransmitter-ology was born, and this idea was modified—a new memory requires the formation of a new synapse, a new connection between an axon terminal and a dendritic spine.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
They might spend years tracing some mental formation back to its source.
~ Larry Rosenberg
Stalactites." Sara swept her flashlight beam over the floor. "And stalagmites, too." "I can never remember the difference." "Just remember C for ceiling, G for ground.
~ Laura Griffin
The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.
~ William Buckland
This state of wondering paralysis cries out for criticism, which promises to sort through the glut, to assist in the formation of choices, to act as gatekeeper to our besieged sensoria.
~ A.O. Scott
A green X-wing closed in tighter to the formation. Yes, sir. Though distorted by the comm system, the voice sounded indulgent rather than military. That's 'Yes, Wedge' until we're formally returned to duty. The commander smiled. Or perhaps, 'Yes, Exalted One.' Or 'Yes, O envy of all Corellia.' Or-
~ Aaron Allston
Ethics as formation, then, is the venture of speaking about the form of Christ taking form in our world neither abstractly nor casuistically, neither programmatically nor purely reflectively.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
~ Dalia Mogahed
I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)
~ Jerrold Mundis
It is by men's being formed to a right way of thinking, that they are formed to a right way of feeling and acting with regard to this world and the next—to God, and our brethren of mankind.[4]
~ Jerry Bridges
Psychologically, faith has two entirely different meanings. It can be the expression of an inner relatedness to mankind and affirmation of life; or it can be a reaction formation against a fundamental feeling of doubt, rooted in the isolation of the individual and his negative attitude toward life.
~ Erich Fromm
Socialization means the formation of human beings out of helpless, dependent animal matter.
~ Ernest Becker
Unfortunately, the people who have the greatest influence in our lives rarely understand the power of their words to shape who we become. They never fully understand that what informs us forms us. Words spoken into a soul are like the hands of a potter pressed against wet clay.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
So it is that much homiletical advice tends to function in reverse—that is, it works reasonably well in evaluating a sermon already formed, but provides very little help en route!
~ Eugene L. Lowry
cats! A whole bunch of them...13 to be exact, with Silky in the lead! They were flying in formation, coming in low and fast
~ Andy Griffiths