Regularity Quotes - Page 5

• As for the eastern part of the former Soviet Union, the picture is rather uniform. Authoritarian structures prevail to differing extents. But we can still determine certain regularities, and the role of Russia is not to be underestimated. It is clear that we would have the same situation in Tajikistan and, let's say, Uzbekistan without the direct influence of Russia.

  Garry Kaspárov

  Russia, Uzbekistan, Roles

  Fuente: www.rferl.org

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• ... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the same if one wants to go back to the origin of the sciences, one will find only obscurity, vague ideas, vicious circles; and one loses oneself in the primitive ideas.

  Lazare Carnot

  Beautiful, Circles, Ideas

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• Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.

  Edwin A. Abbott

  Approval, Expediency, Seals

  Edwin A. Abbott (2015). “Flatland”, p.29, Xist Publishing

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• The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.

  Laurence Sterne

  Character, Men, Omission

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• La dificultad para juzgar qué tipo de comportamiento funciona bien surge no sólo porque un determinado curso de acción no siempre produce los resultados. Pueden producirse resultados similares por motivos ajenos a las acciones de la persona, lo que complica aún más el juicio inferencial. Los efectos que surgen independientemente de las acciones de uno distorsionan la influencia de efectos similares producidos por las acciones, pero sólo en algunas ocasiones. Dado un fuerte conjunto cognitivo para percibir regularidades, incluso las ocurrencias conjuntas fortuitas de sucesos pueden ser fácilmente juzgadas erróneamente como relaciones genuinas de baja probabilidad contingente

  Albert Bandura

  Strong, Judging, Outcomes

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• To know whether you can trust a particular intuitive judgment, there are two questions you should ask: Is the environment in which the judgment is made sufficiently regular to enable predictions from the available evidence? The answer is yes for diagnosticians, no for stock pickers. Do the professionals have an adequate opportunity to learn the cues and the regularities? The answer here depends on the professionals' experience and on the quality and speed with which they discover their mistakes.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Mistake, Opportunity, Two

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• All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the money or maintain intestinal regularity, they get hostile.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Travel, People, Lag

  Mary-Lou Weisman, Edward Koren (2003). “Traveling While Married”, p.1, Algonquin Books

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• There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!

  Lewis Carroll

  Education, Children, Hate

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.309, Race Point Pub

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• Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity - finding an individual formula to apply to one's buildings.

  Shigeru Ban

  Ideas, Design, Principles

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• A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most vain may aspire.
  [Fr., L'air spirituel est dans les hommes ce que la regularite des traits est dans les femmes: c'est le genre de beaute ou les plus vains puissent aspirer.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beauty, Air, Looks

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• For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the dream of spotlessness and innocence, vanishes into thin air: your decencies and your church-goings and your regularities and your attachment to a correct school and party, your gospel formulas of sound doctrine--what is all that, in front of the blaze of the wrath to come?

  Frederick William Robertson

  Dream, Integrity, Party

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.109

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• a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living - so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Writing, Discovery

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3994, Delphi Classics

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• The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Office, Doe

  Jane Austen (2012). “Emma Thrift Study Edition”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.

  Augustus William Hare

  Order, Justice, Spirit

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.253

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• A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.

  George Combe

  Sleep, Exercise, Night

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• The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity and order, proportion, colour and utility, and, furthermore, be capable of arousing feelings of grandeur, gaiety, sadness, wildness, domesticity, surprise and secrecy.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Sadness, Garden, Views

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• I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.

  William Gibson

  Strong, America, Lists

  Entrevista con Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. 7 de septiembre de 2010.

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• Los putts cortos se fallan porque no es físicamente posible hacer que la pequeña bola se desplace sobre terreno incierto durante tres o cuatro pies con cierto grado de regularidad.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Feet, Degrees

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• ... en estas membranas expandidas [alas de mariposa] la Naturaleza escribe, como en una tablilla, la historia de las modificaciones de las especies, de modo que todos los cambios de la organización se registran verdaderamente en ellas. Además, los mismos patrones de color de las alas muestran generalmente, con gran regularidad, los grados de parentesco de las especies. Como las leyes de la naturaleza deben ser las mismas para todos los seres, las conclusiones de este grupo de insectos deben ser aplicables a todo el mundo.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Naturaleza, Escritura, Mariposa

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• Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or choice than the action of the planets? ... We know that man's every act is induced by motives that led or urged him here or there; that the sequence of cause and effect runs through the whole universe, and is nowhere more compelling than with man.

  Clarence Darrow

  Running, Moving, Men

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• Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Men, Needs

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• I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so maybe it is true, but what kind of marriage will those perfect marriages be? There will be no tension, there will be no individuality in the man or in the woman. They will never collide, they will never fight. They will be too sweet to each other. And too much sweetness brings diabetes! Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Sweet, Fighting

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• The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Essence, Relax, Able

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.55, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.

  Bertrand Russell

  Iron, Discipline, Creative

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.12, Psychology Press

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• Todo anciano se queja de la creciente depravación del mundo, de la petulancia e insolencia de la nueva generación. Relata la decencia y regularidad de tiempos pasados, y celebra la disciplina y sobriedad de la época en que transcurrió su juventud; una época feliz que ahora ya no cabe esperar, puesto que la confusión ha irrumpido en el mundo y ha derribado todos los límites de la urbanidad y la reverencia.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Discipline, Broken

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