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Quotes About Conditions

Success is like a seed, it waits for the right conditions that will allow it to grow.
~ Auliq Ice
The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.
~ Seymour Papert
Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.
~ S. I. Hayakawa
Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions
~ Diane Ravitch
Among the conditions of life or the laws of Nature, some of which seem to us faulty, some apparently unjust and merciless, there are many that amaze us by their beauty and sweetness. Love of home, regardless of its character or location, certainly is one of these.
~ Andrew Carnegie
There can only be systems that are more appropriate in a particular set of circumstances.
~ Andrew Hunt
I guess nothing restrains people from demanding ideal conditions. Very little restrains them from anything.
~ Saul Bellow
A white December sky overly the Atlantic gloom. The message of Nature seemed to be that conditions were severe, that things were tough, very tough, and that people should console one another.
~ Saul Bellow
When we come into the world, we have the innate tendencies, motivations, and goals that make up nature's effect, anticipating to some extent the general conditions of our life, but then nurture's effect takes over to adapt us to the actual conditions on the ground.
~ John A. Bargh
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
~ John C. Ransom
Since only a narrow range of the allowed values for, say, the fine structure constant will permit observers to exist in the Universe, we must find ourselves in the narrow range of possibilities which permit them, no matter how improbable they are. We must ask for the conditional probability of observing constants to take particular ranges, given that other features of the Universe, like its age, satisfy necessary conditions for life.
~ John D. Barrow
belief in the ultimate simplicity and unity behind the rules that constrain the Universe leads us to expect that there exists a single unchanging pattern behind the appearances. Under different conditions this single pattern will crystallise into superficially distinct patterns that show up as the four separate forces governing the world around us. It has gradually become clear how this patterning probably works.
~ John D. Barrow
Buddha said that if you want to eradicate crime, the economic conditions of the people have to be improved.
~ John Daido Loori
The scientific method is the only authentic means at our command for getting at the significance of our everyday experiences of the world in which we live...scientific method provides a working pattern of the way in which and conditions under which experiences are used to lead ever onward and outward.
~ John Dewey
To be intelligently experimental is but to be conscious of [the] intersection of natural conditions so as to profit by it instead of being at its mercy. The Christian idea of this world and this life as a probation is a kind of distorted recognition of the situation; distorted because it applied wholesale to one stretch of existence in contrast with another, regarded as original and final
~ John Dewey
Since language represents the physical conditions that have been subjected to the maximum transformation in the interests of social life—physical things which have lost their original quality in becoming social tools—it is appropriate that language should play a large part compared with other appliances.
~ John Dewey
I question whether the spiritual life does not get its surest and most ample guarantees when it is learned that the laws and conditions of righteousness are implicated in the working processes of the universe; when it is found that man in his conscious struggles, in his doubts, temptations and defeats, in his aspirations and successes, is moved on and buoyed up by the forces which have developed nature.
~ John Dewey
In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity.
~ Herbert Marcuse
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like.
~ George W. Bush
The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal,' de Tocqueville wrote, 'but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or wretchedness.
~ Edward Luce
A trader, in addition to studying basic conditions, remembering market precedents and keeping in mind the psychology of the outside public as well as the limitations of his brokers, must also know himself and provide against his own weaknesses. There is no need to feel anger over being human.
~ Edwin Lefevre
big swing its initial impulse, the fact is that its continuance is not the result of manipulation by pools or artifice by financiers, but depends upon basic conditions. And no matter who opposes it, the swing must inevitably run as far and as fast and as long as the impelling forces determine.
~ Edwin Lefevre
Conditions in goodness are a route of hypocrisy.
~ Ehsan Sehgal