P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Proper market research keeps you informed on what your competitors are doing, as well as their strengths and weaknesses.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Proper names are poetry in the raw.
Like all poetry they are untranslatable.”
“Proper names are rigid designators.”
“Proper nutrition is one of the most fundamental things on which anyone’s healthy and happy life can be based.
If you want to radically change your being for the better, to feel satisfied about who you are, or to look slim and attractive no matter what age is stated in your passport, start with changing unhealthy eating habits to healthy ones —and make them your favorites.”
Source: Slim and Healthy You
“Proper physical exercise increases your chances of health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth. Laziness decreases both health and wealth.”
Source: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money—That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
“Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Poor Performance”
Source: The Little Red Handbook of Public Speaking and Presenting
“Proper posture conveys that you are ready to take command and master new situations. When you project this level of confidence, you will instill confidence in others.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“Proper posture sends a positive message since 90% of all communication occures through body language and how you carry yourself.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“Proper praying is like a person who wanders through a field gathering flowers-one by one, until they make a beautiful bouquet. In the same manner, a person must gather each letter, each syllable, to form them into words of prayer.”
“Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.”
Source: The Richest Man in Babylon
“Proper preparation prevents poor performance.”
“Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.”
“Proper pronunciation is essential for clarity in effective communication. By aiming to be clear in your speech, you'll build self-confidence and credibility.”
“Proper prospecting prevents poverty.”
Source: Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Platinum Book of Cha-ching!: 32.5 Strategies to Ring Your Own (cash) Register of Business and Personal Success
“Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.”
“Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.”
“Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front.”
“Proper storage is about creating a home for something so that minimal effort is required to find it and put it away.”
Source: Decluttering Your Home: Tips, Techniques and Trade Secrets
“Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.”
Source: DUNE
“Proper Torah observance must flow from a heart of love for our neighbor. If we claim to be Torah observant but neglect matters of justice, mercy, and faithfulness, then we are not truly Torah observant.”
Source: When Faith Works: Living Out the Law of Liberty According to James
“Proper training is key, it allows one to accomplish a great deal."" Queen Elizabeth II”
Source: The Job Well Done: The Queen's Way to Successful Leadership
“Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.”
Source: How to Lie with Statistics
“Proper turkey preparation is critical. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more Americans die every year from eating improperly cooked turkey than were killed in the entire Peloponnesian War. This is because turkey can contain salmonella, which are tiny bacteria that, if they get in your bloodstream, develop into full-grown salmon, which could come leaping out of your mouth during an important business presentation.”
“Proper utilization of limited resources needs planning.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm.”
“Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.”
“Proper worship in any age is critically predicated upon adequate and accurate knowledge of the God worshiped. No matter how ceremonially elaborate, emotionally rousing, or sermonically eloquent, worship that is not offered from a proper understanding of who God is falls short.”
“Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain.”
Source: A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3
“Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.”
“Properly conducted scientific studies . . . give us a pretty good idea of when something is likely to be correct. To me, pretty good is a linguistic statistic that falls somewhere in between more likely than not and beyond a reasonable doubt, et avoides the pitfalls arising from the belief in complete objectivity.”
“Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on.”
“Properly measured, the average actively managed dollar must underperform the average passively managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses that appear to refute this principle are guilty of improper measurement.”
“Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.”
“Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.”
“Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.”
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters
“Properly speaking, all true Work is Religion: and whatsoever Religion is not Work may go and dwell among the Brahmins, Antinomians, Spinning Dervishes, or where it will; with me it shall have no harbour. Admirable was that of the old Monks, 'Laborare est Orare, Work is Worship.”
Source: Past and Present
“Properly speaking, the Zen monks are supposed to eat only twice a day after the fashion set up by the Buddha in India. The evening meal is, therefore, called yaku-seki, "medicinal food.”
Source: The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk
“Properly speaking, all true work is religion.”
Source: Past and Present
“Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world.”
“Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.”
Source: Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections
“Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.”
“Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.”
“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.”
Source: THE
“Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.”
Source: The Wisdom of Goethe
“Properly timed and well-constructed questions lead your freak away from emotion because they force them to the other side of their brain where they don’t freak, they think.”
Source: Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
“Properly told, stories are able to operate on two levels. On the surface, they deal with particulars involving a range of facts related to a given time and place, a local culture and a social group--and it is these specifics that tend to bore us whenever they lie outside of our own experience. But then, a layer beneath the particulars, the universals are hidden: the psychological, social and political themes that transcend the stories' temporal and geographical settings and are founded on unvarying fundamentals of human nature.”
Source: The News: A User's Manual
“Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.”
Source: Every Dog Should Have a Man: The Care and Feeding of Dog's Best Friend
“Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.”
“Properly understood, the doctrine of sin means that believers are never as good as our true worldview should make us. Similarly, the doctrine of grace means as messed up their false worldview should make them.”
Source: Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World