Quotes About Rigor

I support high academic standards. Period.

Hay en el alma un deseo de no pensar. De estar quieto. Emparejado con éste, un deseo de ser estricto, sí, y riguroso. Pero el alma también es una afable hija de puta no siempre de fiar.

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.

Alas, if must your great affairs be done, Know that fair means increase your servants vigor: Hearts by unpleasing checks are never won, And willingness is not enlarged by rigor.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

preferred the more informal service of the Methodists to the religious rigor of the Lutherans, who were as ubiquitous in Minnesota as ragweed.

you will marvel at how very unusual Yale's team of star performers is in combining rigor and objectivity with the personal warmth and trust that avoids "politics" or "positioning" and maximizes real listening for full understanding every day.

A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.

Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.

There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural sciences.

Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.

Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.

The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.

John Calvin, brought characteristic rigor to the question. Luther dreamed of good princes, disliked law on principle, and had little interest in institutions. As a result, Lutheran churches ended up with a mishmash of governing structures. Calvin, by contrast, had trained as a lawyer, knew that structures matter, and favored more participatory government.

As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.

In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

I think it should be hard to get into the playoff. It really should.