Quotes About Assign

Life in general has no meaning. Whatever meaning life has must be assigned to it by the individual.

Regarding those pesky impersonal third-person singular pronouns and other occasions when the authors must assign a gender to a fictitious person used to illustrate a point, it seems to us there is a simple, fair solution, which we hereby endorse: Unless there are obvious reasons not to, use the gender of the first author. We use he throughout.

There is no meaning but what we assign. We create our own reality. I can live with that.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Aunt Grace had once told me that we can romanticize the unknown far too easily. It is much harder but more satisfying to assign wonder to what we were familiar with.

To ABLEGATE  (A'BLEGATE)   v.a.[ablego, Lat.] To send abroad upon some employment; also to send a person out of the way that one is weary of.Dict.  

Even the government couldn't have concocted such an obscene clusterfuck. So this one was on God or the universe, whichever way you wanted to assign the blame.

Everybody is a psychological creature, wanting to assign meaning to everything. Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.

It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?

If blame is driving, shame is riding shotgun. In organizations, schools, and families, blaming and finger-pointing are often symptoms of shame. Shame researchers June Tangney and Ronda Dearing explain that in shame-bound relationships, people "measure carefully, weigh, and assign blame.

I am of the opinion, Tharkay said, that you ought not assign to free will something more likely the consequence of a sharp blow to the skull.

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

Those who value peace of mind, assign everything to the course of Time as the cause, but practical men soon assuage their grief by revenge.

unequally; rarely do they assign equal weights to attributes when performing categorization (Goodman, 1955; Medin & Schaffer, 1978; Nosofsky, 1984; Ortony, 1979; Sutherland & Mackintosh, 1971; Trabasso & Bower, 1968: A. Tversky, 1977).

Is your job thinking?" Snowfall shouted, making him jump. "ARE YOU AN EXPERT THINKER? Did we accidentally assign you to scouting because we missed your GIANT AMAZING BRAIN and all the AMAZING THINKS it could have shared with us?! DOES IT SEEM LIKELY THAT YOUR THINKING WOULD INTEREST ME?

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. Why refer to lady crack pipe or good sir dishrag when these things could never live up to all that their sex implied?

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

While theories are a necessary aspect of planning, their true danger comes when we forget how often individuals, businesses, and nations defy the prototypes we assign them.

What is missing in our economic system is a central value that can encompass everything that can be transacted and used to assign the proper relative value to everything.

So what the hell do you want us to do, then?" Delvan asked. "Make that cost exorbitant," Soi Hon said. "Such people always assign a value to everything in monetary terms. We might not be able to defeat them on Mortonridge, but we can certainly prevent any further Liberation campaigns after this one.