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“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.”

Source: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

“What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars? Or do we save so that those last years will not be mentally barren or esthetically shabby? I try to save a few things to furnish my mind decently, on the theory that no auctioneer can get in there to sell off all the furniture.”

Trying Years Mind Doe Ends Lasts Hours Theory Future Sells Tired Dollars Last Year Furniture Barren End Of Life Shabby

Author:Margaret Culkin Banning

“Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.”

Doe Ends Bigs Jobs Theory Fantastic Quantum Mechanic Big Things Small Things Explaining Spectrum Relativity Quantum Mechanics Theories Of Relativity

Author:Brian Greene

“You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a movie is a pair of eyes.”

May Ends Eye Film Faces Theory Blue Pairs

Author:Stephanie Zacharek

“People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.”

People Ends Theory Embrace Extremes This Life Paradise Good Will

Author:Subhash Kak

“Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by this month seem only stirred to lamentation, giving us year end and 'melancholy days' remarks, thereby showing that theory is stronger than observation among the rhyming brotherhood, or else that they have chronic indigestion and no gardens to stimulate them.”

Source: The garden of a commuter's wife

“At the other end of the spectrum is, for example, graph theory, where the basic object, a graph, can be immediately comprehended. One will not get anywhere in graph theory by sitting in an armchair and trying to understand graphs better. Neither is it particularly necessary to read much of the literature before tackling a problem: it is of course helpful to be aware of some of the most important techniques, but the interesting problems tend to be open precisely because the established techniques cannot easily be applied.”

Trying Important Ends Problem Courses Literature Interesting Example Objects Theory Sitting Mathematics Technique Helpful Spectrum Tackling Armchairs Graphs

Author:Timothy Gowers

“I'm not a structured writer. I have the carpet-laying theory which is you put it out there until there is a lump and you keep pushing the lump across the floor until the whole thing just lies flat. Every time you write there is going to be a bulge, something doesn't work and you have to find your way to get it to the other end.”

Way Writing Ends Whole Lying Theory Pushing Flats Carpet Lumps

Author:Bruce Joel Rubin

“For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.”

“You can go to doctors until the last cow has been placed in its shed. You can journey the earth in search of peace of mind. You can experiment with a dozen theories, hoping for a relief from worries, or the problems which beset you, but unless you learn to relax you will end up disappointed. Tension is a killer! Just relax and note the immediate effect. One of peace and ease of mind. One in which every organ of the body joins. In relaxation there is unity of mind, body and spirit.”

“I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are kind of at the sharp end of capitalism one way or another. Mainly because they buy everything. In a practical sense, women buy most things. They're always comparing - to friends, to famous people, to other people. An obsessive act of comparison.”

People Way Kind Ends Seems Theory Capitalism Practicals One Way Compare Pet Comparison Obsessive

Author:Zadie Smith

“Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.”

“When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to happen. There was a theory that the chain reaction would continue forever. And we would have created a little tiny sun out there in the desert that would burn until the end of the universe. It wasn't a widely held theory but it was a theory that nobody had a way of disproving. There were people who thought it wouldn't go off at all, that it would simply sit out there and melt and produce a great big dirty cloud of radioactivity. Nobody knew.”

People Way Firsts Littles War Ends Bigs Happens Universe White Sun Forever Produce Theory Clouds Tiny Reactions Chains Desert Dirty Bombs Sand Atomic Bomb Chain Reactions White Sand

Author:Stephen King

“It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.”

Men Ends Grows Theory Supreme Practicals Proportion Enlightened Righteousness Creeds Devoted Subservient

Book:New statement of the aim of the ethical culture societies

Source: New statement of the aim of the ethical culture societies

“Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.”

Important Ends Purpose Turns Theory Important Things Practicals

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“In theory, it makes a lot of sense to combine the two operations, especially on the back end. But merging the two actual portal consumer experiences into a unified site will be a nightmare.”

Two Ends Theory Consumers Operations Nightmare Site Unified Portal Merging

Author:Charlene Li

“Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.”

Ends Political Understanding Economic Events Theory Libertarianism Compelling Lenses

Book:Fascism versus Capitalism

Source: Fascism versus Capitalism

“If a psychological Maxwell devises a general theory of mind, he may make it possible for a psychological Einstein to follow with a theory that the mental and the physical are really the same. But this could happen only at the end of a process which began with the recognition that the mental is something completely different from the physical world as we have come to know it through a certain highly successful form of detached objective understanding. Only if the uniqueness of the mental is recognized will concepts and theories be devised especially for the purpose of understanding it.”

Ifs Knows World Mind May Different Ends Happens Form Purpose Certain Process Understanding Successful Theory Concepts Objectives Psychological Recognition Uniqueness Detached Maxwell

Book:The View From Nowhere

Source: The View From Nowhere

“My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD, that's it, simple.”

Knows Way Years Long Two Ends Stories Simple Know How Five Tvs Theory Ten Computer Screens Cinema Two Ways Dvds

Author:Eric Fellner

“I end up improvising in almost everything to some degree, 'cause it's often necessary on movies. The script is one thing, and it's this kind of theory of what you're going to do, and then you get there on the day and you realize, "Oh, the script is not appropriate to this room, the door's over here."”

Kind Ends Causes Realizing Rooms Doors One Thing Theory Degrees Scripts Appropriate Improvising

Author:John C. Reilly

“Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end, the #1 media for musicians. Which is strange, because there's a visual associated with it.”

People Ends Media Strange Materials Theory Musician Visuals Youtube

Author:Travis Morrison

“Consequentialist theories begin with a very simple and undoubtedly valid point: Every action aims at a future end, and is seen as a means to it.”

Mean Ends Action Simple Theory Aim

Author:Allen W. Wood

“Consequentialist theories pretend that we can set some great big ends (the general happiness, human flourishing), provide ourselves with definite enough conceptions of them to make them the objects of instrumental reasoning, and then obtain enough reliable information about what actions will best promote them that we could regulate our conduct by these considerations alone.”

Humans Ends Enough Bigs Action Information Objects Theory Reasoning Consideration Conception Definite Flourishing

Author:Allen W. Wood

“It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.”

Humans Looks Mean Real Ends Facts Turns Choices Interest Simple Pay Attention Moral Practice Theory Philosopher Rational Limitation Useless Abstract Reasoning Formal Shallow Elegant

Author:Allen W. Wood

“Some critics thought the ontology and theory of qualities absurd. No one had ever seen these little atoms, and furthermore, how could their mere arrangement produce a noisy, colourful, world in which day followed night and animals generated their own kind? Instead of a world created, cared, for and supervised by supernatural persons, the Epicureans appeared to the theologians to be assigning everything to chance. The latter were appalled by Lucretius's view of religion as cruel and oppressive and by the Epicurean insistence that death is the end of all experience.”

World Kind Littles Persons Ends Night Chance Animal Views Quality Produce Theory Mere Critics Absurd Latter Atoms Arrangements Theologian Noisy Insistence Ontology Colourful Epicurean

Author:Catherine Wilson

“If you have a weakness for furry slippers or something, you might end up with that kind of advertising. It's a very complicated algorithmic decision. There's no one dude who's deciding what ads are going with things, and it's very individualized also. And that's the idea of collecting information is that in theory, you're showing people things that they should want to see or for which they are a good target. So, no, there's no master person.”

People Ifs Want Should Kind Persons Ideas Ends Might Decision Information Masters Theory Weakness Complicated Advertising Target Ads Collecting Slippers Furry Collecting Information

Author:Tim Wu

“Every theory I've seen that contains an explanation of war fails. I think they fail for the same reason that explanations of sex fail. War derives from things so deep and so complex, I'm thoroughly baffled by it at the end of the day.”

Thinking War Ends Reason Sex Failing Theory Complexes Explanation The End Of The Day Baffled

Author:George Friedman

“I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.”

People Ends Seems Attitude Theory Ridiculous Positive Attitude Charades

Author:Christian Bale

“I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.”

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