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Quotes About Philosophies

People probably have different philosophies about this, but I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the initial actors that develop it end up imprinting on it - you hear their voices; you hear their rhythms. You can't help but to begin to write toward them during the rehearsal process.
~ Lynn Nottage
The forty-first president asked that his name be permanently removed from the rolls of the NRA. Clinton and Bush: There, from two men of different generations, different philosophies, different temperaments, came unambiguous words of denunciation in a time of
~ Jon Meacham
Modernism is an error which is still making its appearance under various new guises, wholly inconsistent with any genuine religious expression. It is surely an attempt on the part of secular philosophies and secular trends to vitiate the true teaching and discipline of the Church of Christ.
~ Pope Paul VI
Hathiram Choudhary is a vulnerable, intense and deep character. Like every common man, he just wants to prove himself and better himself. But he is also bound by his philosophies.
~ Jaideep Ahlawat
One of the most interesting things I've discovered about human nature is how willing humans are to disbelieve evidence if it doesn't fit with their own personal beliefs and philosophies. Most people are not truly capable of believing in a doomsday scenario, simply because it's unthinkable to them.
~ David Archer
Few are guided by principle any longer, only by what they prefer. "You have to decide what's right for you," we are told. In such a climate, the only remaining virtue is tolerance, and the only philosophies that are wrong are those that believe in truth.
~ James Montgomery Boice
Many of the things we think we know about heaven are half-baked versions of the truth, influenced more by ancient philosophies, the medieval imagination and pop culture than by what the Bible actually says. How, then, did the Christian story of heaven and earth come to be so misunderstood?
~ James Paul
Phil Jackson is a role model, and basically a coaching idol of mine. He's someone I really tried to model some of my coaching philosophies after.
~ Frank Vogel
I used to have a lot of philosophies of acting; they all fell apart over the years.
~ Alan Arkin
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
~ Murray Kempton
Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.
~ Tim Crouch
Are we the only members of the Galaxy that can actually understand what a galaxy is? Could Homo sapiens really be the pinnacle of Creation - the cleverest critters in the cosmos? If we learn the answer is 'no,' that would affect our philosophies forever.
~ Seth Shostak
Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.
~ Ridley Scott
And I shall not be concerned at all with other religions such as Buddhism or Confucianism. Indeed, there is something to be said for treating these not as religions at all but as ethical systems or philosophies of life.
~ Richard Dawkins
Many Islamic rituals, philosophies, doctrines, sacred texts, and shrines are the result of frequently anguished and self-critical contemplation of the political events of Islamic society.
~ Karen Armstrong
You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.
~ Bryant H. McGill
If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.
~ Allan W. Eckert
We lock ourselves into our own philosophies, our own religions, our own walks of life, and if we fail, we condemn ourselves and then we get sick.
~ Erykah Badu
I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?
~ Ameen Rihani
I am beginning to see a large-scale introduction of various management tools, philosophies and practices in the service sectors and have a high hope that it will become a global trend.
~ Masaaki Imai
I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.
~ Erykah Badu
So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.
~ Judith Anderson
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
~ George Santayana