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Quotes About Applied

Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
~ Diogenes
In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."
~ Edward Teller
To be sure, the term is applied to God in the OT, occasionally in relationship to Israel generally (Hos 11:1), and particularly with reference to the Davidic king (e.g., Ps 2:7; 89:26-27; 2 Sam 7:14). In some Jewish texts, God is also specifically "Father" to the righteous (e.g., Wis 2:16).
~ Larry W. Hurtado
They applied pitch to fraying hemp, and repaired torn or stressed sails.
~ Laurence Bergreen
The 'community method' can only be applied in those areas in which the European Union actually has competence. Where the community has no competence, the 'community method' clearly cannot be applied.
~ Angela Merkel
Before my mother died, I was supposed to go to the local university, where I'd applied early decision. It was the same school my two older sisters had graduated from, which had been the sole criteria for choosing it.
~ Camille Perri
If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.
~ Rolf-Dieter Heuer
But Jobs was the first to become obsessed with the idea of incorporating PARC's interface ideas into a simple, inexpensive, personal computer. Once again, the greatest innovation would come not from the people who created the breakthroughs but from the people who applied them usefully. On
~ Walter Isaacson
Punishment [is] applied like a rabbit's foot, with as little regard to its efficacy.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.
~ J. C. Kumarappa
Julia is the co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality, a nonprofit that runs workshops on improving reasoning and decision-making.
~ Timothy Ferriss
It is the oldest and most simple curse on earth, and when properly applied, no cure can be found. Some might call it love.
~ Toby Barlow
thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
~ William Faulkner
Every faculty that naturally belongs to the human mind is latent in every mind, and it can be awakened and developed, provided the proper laws are faithfully applied.
~ Christian D. Larson
I had also learned that the death penalty in the United States has always been most rigorously applied in Southern states - mostly toward those who kill whites.
~ Helen Prejean
The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.
~ Robert Walpole
I have applied for Israeli citizenship, which makes playing overseas a bit easier.
~ Sue Bird
Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.
~ Trevanian
the single difference between success and failure, between gain and loss, has boiled down to two words: applied knowledge.
~ Unknown
I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.
~ Anthony Hopkins
The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.
~ Peter Clewes
That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.
~ Gordon Gould
It is in the world of things and places, times and troubles and turbid processes, that mathematics is not so much applied as illustrated.
~ David Berlinski
Terrorists, Dale? I recall before the war when it became politically incorrect to use that term when it came to real terrorists and ironically then applied to those who were not—and look at what it finally got us.
~ William R. Forstchen