Quotes About Rigor

It's important to me that no one can say I'm not pumping out high-level research.

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.

France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

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.

He said that the only thing that didn't lie because it simply couldn't was mathematics.

Unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

His answer to life was discipline. We had a strict routine that nothing could change:

We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

Novel-writing is not so much a profession as a yoga, or way, an alternative to ordinary life-in-the-world. Its benefits are quasi-religious—a changed quality of mind and heart, satisfactions no non-novelist can understand—and its rigors generally bring no profit except to the spirit. For those who are authentically called to the profession, spiritual profits are enough.--John Gardner

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

All an investor can do is follow a consistently disciplined and rigorous approach; over time the returns will come

In your daytime life you have to be more strict.

In exceptional boardrooms, the intellectual rigor generated by a challenging question is both an accepted norm and a precursor to reaching informed decisions. This is the crucial edge that sets apart boards that lead from boards that follow.

with a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students

I am old and do not suffer fools gently and if you expect me to review your work, it better meet my stringent standards for logic and science.

She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly, as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings — that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigor of irresistible day.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.

Nothing can account for the reductionist tendencies among neuroscientists except a lack of rigor and consistency, a loyalty to conclusions that are prior to evidence and argument, and an indifference to science as a whole.

CHAPTER XXXVIII 'YOU ARE SO SEVERE

La sola risposta al nulla sta nell'illusione. E' quasi un fatto biologico. È la nostra sostanza stessa. Non è illusione, è qualcosa di più. Ma ciò vuole anche dire che il pericolo della vita consiste nell'esagerare col rigore, nello spingersi troppo oltre. Questione di temperamento. Un'altra cosa spiacevole nella vita è l'astio. L'astioso è un incattivito che si attribuisce una sorta di superiorità.

The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few bitter fools, a few disconsolate bastards, who, victims of the rigor of their cynicism, could no longer attach themselves to any vice.