Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.
~By Jonathan Gilbert ~
Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus which is the business of politics. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
~By Timothy R. Minnich ~
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
~By Erich Fromm ~
Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?
~By Mike Huckabee ~
The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
~By Lamar Alexander ~
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.
~By Arthur Levitt ~
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.
~By Bernard Sanders ~
The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.
~By Henri Pirenne ~
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
~By Edward Bach ~
The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
~By Leland Stanford ~
You don't reward reaction; you reward results.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with the same energy and enthusiasm I gave to football without expecting the same results.
~By Graeme Le Saux ~
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
~By Brian Eno ~
As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.
~By Norman Lamm ~
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
~By Buddha ~
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.
~By Tipper Gore ~
He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
We had been getting some bad results, now it is up to us to make up the ground and catch Manchester United.
~By Robbie Fowler ~
We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever.
~By Will Arnett ~
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.
~By Peter Brimelow ~
I have never seen any good resulting from educating the Negro.
~By Henry Carter Stuart ~
Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
~By Tommy Armour ~
The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.
~By Alice Miller ~
I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
~By Ian Williams ~
Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways.
~By Arthur Capper ~
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.
~By John C. Ransom ~
We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction of the magnetic lines of force we found that our result was confirmed.
~By Pieter Zeeman ~
You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
~By Gary Cole ~
Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.
~By John W. Snow ~
The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.
~By David Hume ~
A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.
~By Kelly Miller ~
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want.
~By Paul Taylor ~
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.
~By Will McDonough ~
The Chip also reduces the damage done by bandits. They still steal drinks and cheers along the course, but no longer scramble the paying runners' results. No entry fee, no Chip, no time or place.
~By Joe Henderson ~
Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
~By Sara Teasdale ~
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
~By Johann Most ~
People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
~By Major Owens ~
The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.
~By Rick Wright ~
Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.
~By Eric Schmidt ~
When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.
~By Louis Malle ~
But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.
~By David Packard ~
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.
~By Lawrence Hargrave ~
A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.
~By Greg Walden ~
An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.
~By Donald Cram ~
All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.
~By John Joly ~
So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.
~By Frank Luntz ~
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.
~By Thom Gunn ~
Many actresses do that kind of shoot when they are in their early 20s but I didn't think I had anything to worry about so I decided to go for it. I was very pleased with the results and it was also nice to surprise a few people.
~By Sharon Stone ~
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.
~By Mortimer Zuckerman ~
We must reinforce argument with results.
~By Booker T. Washington ~
And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.
~By Franklin Raines ~
This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.
~By Chris Wedge ~
The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.
~By Joel Coen ~
Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.
~By Archer J. P. Martin ~
But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.
~By Anselm Kiefer ~
Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.
~By Michael Pollan ~
There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center.
~By Alan Autry ~
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
~By T. E. Lawrence ~
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful.
~By Jason Biggs ~
You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.
~By Willard Libby ~
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.
~By Tom C. Clark ~
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
~By Denis Diderot ~
The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.
~By Gifford Pinchot ~
But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.
~By David Kay ~
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
~By John Berger ~
It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.
~By Dennis Bergkamp ~
I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.
~By Will Wright ~
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.
~By David F. Houston ~
The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.
~By Henry Chadwick ~
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
~By Denis Diderot ~
My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.
~By Henry Longhurst ~
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.
~By Ellen Ochoa ~
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
~By Helena Petrova Blavatsky ~
As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results.
~By Wilhelm Ostwald ~
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
~By James Allen ~
What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.
~By Robert Teeter ~
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