Most Applicable Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Joe Theismann

#4. 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

#5. 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.

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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 There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

Virginia Woolf

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

Shari Wiedmann

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Aberjhani

#19. 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

#20. That's an applicable life less, my boy,' he'd said. 'Nobody is really paying attention to you. Most people don't really get this. They think they must count more to other people than other people count to them. They can't believe the disregard could truly be mutual.

Jennifer DuBois

#21. The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

David Halberstam

#22. 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

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

Tori L. Harris

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Dada Bhagwan

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Paul Samuelson

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Richard Curtis

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

Dada Bhagwan

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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