Applicable Quotes

#1. The problem with such guidelines is that they never seemed applicable to the real-world situation.

Tori L. Harris

#2. Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

Adam Driver

#3. There is only one ' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#4. Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here.
The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he'd be able to break through in the end.

Neal Stephenson

#5. What is 'common sense'? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!

Dada Bhagwan

#6. Mathematics has always shown a curious ability to be applicable to nature, and this may express a deep link between our minds and nature. We are the Universe speaking out, a part of nature. So it is not so surprising that our systems of logic and mathematics sing in tune with nature.

George Zebrowski

#7. The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.

Thomas Malthus

#8. Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

Paul Samuelson

#9. There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

Ban Ki-moon

#10. There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum. For me, it was important to have some sense that my failures weren't unique.

Jonathan Dee

#11. The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

Thomas Carlyle

#12. Principle' [Established Truth] means everywhere applicable; when there is nothing else, it is called Principle.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

Carl Sagan

#14. I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.

Neil Diamond

#15. Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

Ezra Taft Benson

#16. In tantra we don't believe in commandments. We believe in the moment and the truth that is applicable for that moment, as best we can sort it out with our heart, our intuition, our knowledge, our common sense.

Frederick Lenz

#17. But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line.

Peter Cosgrove

#18. I don't believe that knifing and that sort of terminology is applicable to myself, but I try to the very best of my ability to be as honest as I can with my colleagues and with the electorate at large.

Eric Abetz

#19. In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.

Akira Mori

#20. Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

Richard Curtis

#21. Ethical inquiry has always been motivated by the aim of improving human conduct. It doesn't follow from that that the goal is to produce a complete rule book that would be applicable to all cases.

Philip Kitcher

#22. The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A
Genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Joe Theismann

#23. People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.

Mark Zuckerberg

#24. So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

Aristotle.

#25. A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.

Eliot Spitzer

#26. First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.

Adam McKay

#27. We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force of natural selection on the human physique are conditioned by the dimensions of culture.

C. Loring Brace

#28. It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

Ludwig Von Mises

#29. There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

Virginia Woolf

#30. I think this is very applicable to men and women - that they are looking for love in all the wrong places.

Shari Wiedmann

#31. Time and space were, from Death's point of view, merely things that he'd heard described. When it came to Death, they ticked the box marked Not Applicable. It might help to think of the universe as a rubber sheet, or perhaps not.

Terry Pratchett

#32. I danced before I wrote. Everything my mentor, Marjorie Mussman, teaches about movement -- creating focus, taking chances, making an unequivocal statement -- is beautifully applicable to the craft of writing.

Jane F. Kotapish

#33. In contrast, upgrading the healthy is an elitist project, because it rejects the idea of a universal standard applicable to all and seeks to give some individuals an edge over others. People want superior memories, above-average intelligence and first-class sexual abilities.

Yuval Noah Harari

#34. Logic is always applicable to the real world," Miyasi said dismissively, "but only a novice would think the real world can be applied to logic. Ideals must be first principles. Not the mundane world.

Robert Jordan

#35. If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

Beau Willimon

#36. Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.

Judy Collins

#37. A lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That's applicable to Newton as it is to any other religious smart person

Neal Stephenson

#38. The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.

Neil Peart

#39. It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

Wendell Willkie

#40. Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential phases of war administration.

Chiang Kai-shek

#41. All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

Maimonides

#42. People have to know that there are options available to us today. There is another way, and it is practical and applicable now.

Daryl Hannah

#43. A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

George Eliot

#44. You are on a certain 'step'. This state is meant for only you; it is not applicable to other people. Others are on a different 'step'. Therefore you cannot pressurize anyone. You cannot have any 'objection' towards them.

Dada Bhagwan

#45. A strategic victory does not validate all the victor's operational and tactical methods or make them universally applicable.

Kalev I. Sepp

#46. Data Products are self-adapting, broadly applicable economic engines that derive their value from data and generate more data by influencing human behavior or by making inferences or predictions upon new data.

Benjamin Bengfort

#47. The Romanticists did not present a hero as a statistical average, but as an abstraction of man's best and highest potentiality, applicable to and achievable by all men, in various degrees, according to their individual choices.

Ayn Rand

#48. Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.

Neil Gershenfeld

#49. I have been committed to carrying out my duties ... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

Samuel Alito

#50. In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I can speak Russian, I can speak French. I know about Chanel. Especially vintage Chanel. I know what Halston is. All of these things, but they can't really be applied to a nine-to-five.

Johnny Weir

#51. It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.

Donald Miller

#52. I remember when I heard 'Jessie's Girl' for the first time, I was like, 'This is so applicable to lesbians!'

Mary Lambert

#53. Residues arise ... naturally in several branches of analysis ... Their consideration provides simple and easy-to-use methods, which are applicable to a large number of diverse questions, and some new results ...

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

#54. That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who is acquainted with the extent of the task and who can appreciate the difficulties with which experiments of this kind have to contend.

Gregor Mendel

#55. ...she doesn't have to choose between being gentle or being fierce. Both exist in nature and both exist in her. That's ok. She'll know to nourish them both and when applicable, use each unapologetically.

Steve Maraboli

#56. The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.

Marianne Williamson

#57. Fun for me is to take what I learn and teach others in a way that is accessible and applicable in their own lives.

Daphne Oz

#58. There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe - or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

Michael Brooks

#59. Face your financial issues head on. Open your bills, pick up the phone, call your lender. If applicable, tell them you're struggling and explain why. If you lost your job or took a pay cut, be ready to prove it.

Jean Chatzky

#60. A lot of my theories were not applicable as a closer

Curt Schilling

#61. At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.

Aberjhani

#62. Why don't universities specify the length of time a degree will be fully applicable and useful?

Dan Miller

#63. When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

Hannah Arendt

#64. In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

Antonio Tabucchi

#65. If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all people.

Stephen McAndrew

#66. Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

Chris Carter

#67. Why do you think anyone would go to such lengths to prove that a direct command of God is no longer applicable, unless it is to gain some other benefit other than the acceptance and approbation of God?

Michael Bunker

#68. Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

Bill Gates

#69. Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.

Viola Spolin

#70. And what physicians say about consumptive illnesses is applicable here: that at the beginning, such an illness is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#71. American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

Toni Morrison

#72. There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

Fredrik Bajer

#73. It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

Rene Descartes

#74. Since all organisms vary, and all reproduce themselves in greater numbers than can survive, there must always be competition between variants; in other words, the principle of natural selection, too, is universally applicable.

Charles Darwin

#75. The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.

Julian Baggini

#76. Learning how to make your own fun and discover things on your own is something that is applicable to any job, any relationship, any trip, any adventure in life.

Robin Hunicke

#77. Our Constitution ... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.

Thomas Jefferson

#78. If anything, his parables guarantee the failure not only of his characters, but of readers wishing to abstract any lessons applicable to their own lives. Failure, it seems, is Kafka's true subject.

Franz Kafka

#79. Climbing has a lot of themes that are applicable to people, no matter who you are.

Kevin Jorgeson

#80. Compliance with Laws, Rules and Regulations Employees must follow applicable laws, rules and regulations at all times. Employees with questions about the applicability or interpretation of any law, rule or regulation, should contact the Legal Department

Anonymous

#81. The advantage of the analytical approach is that it is widely applicable, and it can provide a considerable amount of quantitative information even with a relatively poor resolving power.

Christian De Duve

#82. Mark Nanos and I have suggested "Apostolic Judaism" as a descriptive term applicable to the early Jesus movement, including with respect to Paul and his communities.[28]

Mark D. Nanos

#83. Sigma Chi, more than anything else, got me involved with the people who knew how to study, and they helped me. I learned from them. The Norman Shield is still quite applicable now.

William DeVries

#84. Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

Mahatma Gandhi

#85. People buy products, and they want to understand what those things are and how they are applicable to their life.

Tony Fadell

#86. Quality control is applicable to any kind of enterprise. In fact, it must be applied in every enterprise.

Kaoru Ishikawa

#87. Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#88. The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

Paul Dirac

#89. There is number of different efforts around the country are to try to redesign the math pathway and the courses that students have to take to make it more applicable to the real world.

Anya Kamenetz

#90. I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful.

Rozsa Peter

#91. Debt collectors should be required to disclose the applicable statute of limitations in the body of their collection letters, in bold type. While it's not illegal to dun a consumer for an old debt, it is illegal to sue for one.

Gary Weiss

#92. Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to all other parts of the globe, yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

Herbert Spencer

#93. In 1965, physicist Richard Feynman opined, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics," and the sentiment is equally applicable today.

Sean Carroll

#94. I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and intelligence of women are uniquely applicable to other realms as well, such as compassionate service and teaching.

Russell M. Nelson

#95. He documented touchpoints with the various agencies and departments where applicable, recognizing

Peter A. High

#96. E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.

Maelle Gavet

#97. All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every stage of life.

Andy Stanley

#98. The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.

Abraham Lincoln

#99. It was, however, striking - in the best sense of the word - that precisely those rules that corresponded exactly to their overseers' economic interests enjoyed unconditional veneration, whereas rules for which said correspondence was less applicable were more likely to be winked at.

Thomas Mann

#100. Fascism will perish for the very reason that it has applied to man the laws applicable to atoms and cobblestones!

Vasily Grossman