Best Introduction Quotes

#1. Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.

Lauren Willig

#3. A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the ways in which scientists have tried to analyze the world ... THE BEST INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL HISTORY THAT HAS YET BEEN WRITTEN.

Marston Bates

#4. The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.

Italo Calvino

#5. Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

George Gamow

#6. Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.

Virginia Woolf

#7. The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

George Henry Lewes

#8. I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.

Camille Paglia

#9. In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

James Meade

#10. The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity.

Jeff Cohen

#11. Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there were no swipe fees at all. Merchants can't negotiate or control them. They've tried, but they have no leverage against the big banks and issuers. So they get ignored.

Peter Welch

#12. You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.

Mae West

#13. NOW CAME OUR INTRODUCTION to Smiley, former rodeo clown, whose name outside the costume might as well have been Cranky as Hell.

Ivan Doig

#14. It's a penis not an introduction to the president.

K. Webster

#15. factory's problems arose from the introduction of an industrial process in a country with a language and culture stuck in the Middle Ages. The

Antonio Garrido

#16. My introduction to cell cycle control was provided by a clear, scholarly and beautiful seminar given by John Gerhart one afternoon in the summer of 1979.

Tim Hunt

#17. My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.

Peter Sotos

#18. I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

Marcel Proust

#19. Tables of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Bonjour, France! Chapter 2 Numbers and Gender Chapter 3 Plural Forms of Nouns Chapter 4 Pronouns Chapter 5 Verbs Chapter 6 Prepositions Chapter 7 Useful Expressions Preview Of'Spanish For Beginners' Check Out My Other Books Conclusion

Manuel De Cortes

#20. My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.

Geoffrey Wilkinson

#21. Hence the mere chance of seeing Will occasionally was like a lunette opened in the wall of her prison, giving her a glimpse of the sunny air; and this pleasure began to nullify her original alarm at what her husband might think about the introduction of Will as her uncle's guest. On

George Eliot

#22. The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.

Bill Hybels

#23. At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.

Wilbur Smith

#24. Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I've been telling you about. You can see for yourself that everything I've said is ... an understatement.

Jeaniene Frost

#25. The introduction is the first and best chance to win the attention of people who otherwise would not care. The first thing you have to do is make people believe that what you have to say is relevant and important.

David Lloyd-Jones

#26. It's a great day when you meet a new writer, isn't it? It's like an introduction to a best friend you didn't know existed just hours before.

Victoria Connelly

#27. At the English Revolution, when William of Orange came to the throne, the introduction of French wines into the country was prohibited, and this gave a great impetus to the manufacture of cyder and care in the production of cyder of the best description.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#28. I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.

Terry Eagleton

#29. Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story.
("Introduction")

Francis M. Nevins Jr.

#30. You are, without doubt, holding in your hands one of the best-introduced books in the English language. We hope you enjoy the Introduction to the New Edition that follows this Introduction to it and continue to read on even into the book itself.

Douglas Adams

#31. Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction, an interpretive essay, glossary, and index, it is a treasure for readers of military history and Renaissance thought as well as for lovers of Machiavelli.

Harvey Mansfield

#32. Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of the Christ just might be the best short introduction to Biblical scholarship yet.

David Bergland

#33. My introduction to medicinal plants transformed my health and my life, and enhanced and expanded my spiritual practice by connecting me deeply with the Earth, changing my life in the best, most enjoyable ways possible. I am forever grateful.

Robin Rose Bennett

#34. write a history, we must know more than mere facts. Human nature, viewed under an introduction of extended experience, is the best help to the criticism of human history.

Homer

#35. I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

June Foray

#36. Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

David Crane

#37. Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

Ambrose Bierce

#38. All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

Joshua Reynolds

#39. The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

Lord Hailsham

#40. It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow. There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing.

John O'Donohue

#41. I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.

R. YS Perez

#42. The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.

Orison Swett Marden

#43. Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.

Frederick Lenz

#44. [Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. ("If you mention anything about me," she said, "tell people that.")

Amy Tan

#45. This is Zen, and in Zen, as we all know ... anything goes!

Frederick Lenz

#46. No, the truth must be something we understand at once, without an introduction or explanation, but so common and familiar that we don't always realize it's around us.

Saul Bellow

#47. The dry high spirits of this destroyer of optimism make most optimists look damp and depressed.

Philip Littell

#48. Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

Sean Connery

#49. When Lionel Giles began his translation of Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR, the work was virtually unknown in Europe. Its introduction to Europe began in 1782 when a French Jesuit Father living in China, Joseph Amiot, acquired a copy of it, and translated

Sun Tzu

#50. The introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation.

Brigham Young

#51. I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

Jack Steinberger

#52. How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.

Friedrich Engels

#53. Hello, my name is Albany, and I have a telepathic connection with my twin sister, along with the ability to read minds.

C.B. Cook

#54. Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

Frederick Lenz

#55. Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#56. My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Benjamin Disraeli

#57. My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

Patti Smith

#58. For her, their romantic interlude atop the staircase had been a glorious, magical, enlightening introduction to pleasure. For him,it had merely been Friday evening.

Anna Bennett

#59. Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child's ideal introduction to movie magic. Yet Walt Disney taught moral lessons in the most useful way: by scaring the poop out of the little ones.

Richard Corliss

#60. old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history

Amy Tan

#61. My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me ...

Suzanne Collins

#62. Here come the characters who comprise the movie vermin, the Hollywood scum, the film slime - the aforementioned "unscrupulous cowards of mediocrity." Fortunately, they are minor characters, yet so distasteful that their introduction has been delayed as long as possible.

John Irving

#63. It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.

Taiichi Ohno

#64. I am the owner of the sphere,
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,
Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson