Quotes About Terms

I have stopped looking at roles as lead or parallel lead. Also, I feel these are very misleading terms.

If we are serious about measuring and improving, this won't do. Forecasts must have clearly defined terms and timelines. They must use numbers. And one more thing is essential: we must have lots of forecasts.

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we are serious about measuring and improving, this won't do. Forecasts must have clearly defined terms and timelines. They must use numbers. And one more thing is essential: we must have lots of forecasts.

So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.

We have long proved ourselves quite capable of living with this contradiction, using Hamiltonian means (centralized decision-making) while speaking in Jeffersonian rhetorical terms (that government is best which governs least).

Equality was thus conceived in terms of the relative position of individuals, the rules governing their interactions,

Thus, an index built for vector space retrieval cannot, in general, be used for phrase queries. Moreover, there is no way of demanding a vector space score for a phrase query—we only know the relative weights of each term in a document.

the concepts of libertas and libertà came to be employed 'almost as technical terms of Florentine politics and diplomacy' in the course of the fourteenth century, and that they were almost invariably used in order to express the same ideas of independence and self-government

A good folk song tells you something you already know, in a form you're already familiar with, on terms that were set down long before you were born - when the country was primarily windblown dust, open wagon trains, and dysfunctional towns like Deadwood.

The jobs I've gotten are usually the ones where I go in cold or blind in terms of what they're after and I pitch my take on it.

I even reject and condemn in the strongest terms the idea, the consideration of a military coup. If I had the chance I would stand in front of the people who would attempt such a thing and open my arms and beg them to stop.

It seems that every text has more sources than it can reconstruct within its own terms.

The terms 'justice' is ambiguous and dangerous, and in its name more harm than good is done to humanity.

And I call to mankind, Be not curious about God, For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God, No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God, and about death. I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least...

The difference is that they hunger for our souls while we think in terms of lashing out at their bodies.

I negotiate the terms of my life every day and work hard to maintain an emotional status quo that I had to create from scratch.

The expression "literal meaning," taken literally, is a contradiction in terms, an oxymoron, and a nonsense.

The words of law often look like words of the language you speak, but when they are legal terms, they are not.

Or in gamer terms, Ares had been a giant, douchey Leeroy Jenkins.

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

You are offered love and won't accept it except on your own terms. That isn't tragic. It's the word you've just mentioned—it's childish.

Or do you just find that coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?

The choice between the ethical and the aesthetic is not the choice between good and evil, it is the choice whether or not to choose in terms of good and evil.