Accurate Quotes - Page 2

• The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

  Charles Darwin

  Expression, Survival, Sometimes

  On the Origin of Species, 5th ed., ch. 3 (1869) See Philander Johnson 1; Herbert Spencer 5; Herbert Spencer 6

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• To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

  Barbara Ward, Baronesa Jackson de Lodsworth

  Mean, Greed, Survival

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• Soy una persona muy racional, pero rezo todos los días.

  Emmy Rossum

  Praying, Rational, Persons

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.

  John Dos Passos

  Character, Novelists, Records

  "The Business of a Novelist". review of William Rollins's The Shadow Before, 1934.

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• Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Pounds, Language

  Ezra Pound, Marcella Spann (1964). “Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry”, p.338, New Directions Publishing

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• I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Art, Made, Statements

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.

  John Hume

  Children, Perception, Important

  "Campeón irlandés de los derechos civiles". Entrevista de la Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. 8 de junio de 2002.

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• The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Hymns, Issues, United States

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• La misión declarada en aquel momento era simplemente utilizar la influencia de la industria del entretenimiento para hacer un retrato fiel del abuso de drogas y alcohol. Todos admitimos que no intentamos censurar a nadie.

  Gerald McRaney

  Alcohol, Drogas, Abuso

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• Una medición precisa vale más que mil opiniones de expertos.

  Grace Hopper

  Women, Experts, Measurement

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• People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.

  Ashley Judd

  Hurt, Character, Thinking

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• The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Artist, Men, Names

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.51, City Lights Books

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• Confía en ti mismo. Tus percepciones suelen ser mucho más precisas de lo que estás dispuesto a creer.

  Claudia Black

  Inspiración, Motivación, Positivo

  Claudia Black (2011). "La verdad empieza contigo: Reflexiones para sanar tu espíritu", p.70, Central Recovery Press, LLC.

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• Pero descubrí que ser artista y hacer un trabajo preciso es muy difícil.

  Alan Bean

  Artist, Found, Difficult

  "An Interview with Space Artist Astronaut Alan Bean". Interview with Jim Plakco, www.artsnova.com. October 3, 1992.

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• Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Common Sense, Logic

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). "Introducción al estudio de la zoología, ilustrada por el cangrejo de río".

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• La suposición de una mujer es mucho más precisa que la certeza de un hombre.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Women, Intuition, Absolute Certainty

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.724, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• 

  Los artistas - músicos, pintores, escritores, poetas, siempre parecen haber tenido la percepción más precisa de lo que realmente ocurre a su alrededor, no la versión oficial ni la percepción popular de la vida contemporánea.

  Billy Joel

  Artist, Sea, Perception

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Jan 28, 2014

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• If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

  Edward Hopper

  Artist, Expression, Innovation

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.

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• El niño al que se le ha enseñado a hacer una elevación, un plano y una sección precisos de un bote de una pinta ha recibido un admirable entrenamiento en la precisión del ojo y de la mano.

  Thomas Huxley

  Niños, Ojos, Manos

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). "Collected Essays", p.432, Cambridge University Press.

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• La locura es a menudo la lógica de una mente precisa sobrecargada de tareas.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Amor, Locura, Mente

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). "Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table", p.42, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Ningún pensador acertado juzgará a otra persona por lo que los enemigos de ésta digan de ella.

  Napoleon Hill

  Umpires, Judging, Enemy

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.212, Penguin

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• These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

  Dave Sim

  Reality, Ideas, Justice

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• Los ojos son testigos más precisos que los oídos.

  Heráclito

  Eye, Ears, Witness

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• The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest.

  Terry Pratchett

  Writing, Ankh, Reign

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Es montando en bicicleta como mejor se aprenden los contornos de un país, ya que hay que sudar para subir las colinas y bajarlas. Así las recuerdas tal y como son, mientras que en un coche de motor sólo te impresiona una colina alta, y no tienes un recuerdo tan preciso del país que has atravesado como el que obtienes montando en bicicleta.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiración, Campo, Ciclismo

  "By-Line, Ernest Hemingway: Selección de artículos y despachos de cuatro décadas por Ernest Hemingway". Libro editado por William White, 1967.

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