Quotes About Rigor

The economics of theater are painful. I still think that the theater community should be looking much more rigorously at how to let the playwright keep the money they make.

Play in Ligue 1 is very closed, very aggressive.

The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.

Never, ever, compromise on science.

Young scholars, learning their historical method from Gospel scholars, often treat it as self-evident that the more skeptical they are toward their sources, the more rigorous will be their historical method. It has to be said, over and over, that historical rigor does not consist in fundamental skepticism toward historical testimony but in fundamental trust along with testing by critical questioning…

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

Goku: But I'm so hungry, I have rigor mortis!

The pursuit of perfection required rigor and discipline.

'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

Tradi?iile nu câ?tig? nimic când sunt prea bine explicate. Ele nu pot decât s?-?i piard? din rigoare ?i îngustimea înc?p??ânat? care le dau o parte de frumuse?e.

and so tough that it cannot be worked with ordinary tools.

The certainty of mathematics depends on its complete abstract generality.

lo que les permite discernir con implacable rigor las fantasías y deseos propios de cada sexo pese a que, en apariencia, sólo han tenido ocasión de conocer uno de las dos.

Wenger simply doesn't like those who show a weakness. With him you generally feel as if you were in the army. It's only in public that he may appear to be some sort of man of liberal views. In reality, his credo is natural selection.

In the late 1960s, the New Classical economists saw the same weaknesses in the microfoundations of macroeconomics that have motivated me. They hated its lack of rigor. And they sacked it.

Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!

When you're a film-maker, sometimes you have to be a slave to continuity.

In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

Good grief, he'd fallen into his death sleep with a hard-on. Was it possible for a stiff to be that stiff?

Rigour and ruthlessness do not preclude sympathy with another's point of view.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Little-known fact about cheerleaders: They keep schedules that would make grown marines cry.

Precision matters, breh.