Quotes About Examples

#1. One gets the sense that, for Deleuze, the cinema of the movement-image has been fully realized while that of the time-image is emergent. Comparatively speaking, there are few "pure" examples of films where direct images of time predominate. Mixed or hybrid examples are more common.

D. N. Rodowick

#2. Don't get wrapped around the axle about examples that occur in life. These examples, lessons, and stories are actually life-changing steps to bring you into the person and adult that will be full of wisdom; able to share with the next generation of children.

Fred Phillips III

#3. We must not adopt the world's view and then tweak it to make it Christian. We must draw a line in the sand and stand firm in the radical teachings of Christ and His gospel. We must preach the truth and be the examples of the truth we preach.

Paul Washer

#4. The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an ... evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against thier fellow human beings.

Jeremy Rifkin

#5. Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness ... I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged by such examples of humanity and generosity and tenderness. And if they encourage us to reach out to strangers more often, that's a good thing.

Sophie Blackall

#6. So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#7. There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or someone like Keith Richards, he just has a really idiosyncratic style.

Bryce Dessner

#8. I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.

David Souter

#9. I've learned a lot during my years on the 3rd Circuit, particularly, I think, about the way in which a judge should go about the work of judging. I've learned by doing, by sitting on all of these cases. And I think I've also learned from the examples of some really remarkable colleagues.

Samuel Alito

#10. There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

Baron De Montesquieu

#11. You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath ... and even into the 70s.

Charlton Heston

#12. Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each of them brought to some curious end, to some characteristic exuberance.

Bruno Schulz

#13. Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.

Tom Hulce

#14. I could go on, but I've decided for now that three examples will suffice. Three examples if nothing else, will give you the ashen taste in your mouth that defined my existence during that year.

Markus Zusak

#15. Families will always have their trials; be living examples of love, forgiveness, and care

Pope Francis

#16. Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

Niklaus Wirth

#17. Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture ... and thus have historical significance.

James Lafferty

#18. We did not ask if he had seen any monsters, for monsters have ceased to be news. There is never any shortage of horrible creatures who prey on human beings, snatch away their food, or devour whole populations; but examples of wise social planning are not so easy to find.

Thomas More

#19. Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten.

Lancelot Andrewes

#20. These examples, though as unfit for the imitation, as they are repugnant to the genius of America, are notwithstanding ... very instructive proofs of the necessity of some institution that will blend stability with liberty.

James Madison

#21. His concern was that if there were a few rights specified in the Constitution, future generations may forget that those are just examples and that the Constitution itself protects all human rights.

Thom Hartmann

#22. Learn from examples in history lest thou be made an example

John Boys

#23. While we must learn from good examples and keep always in mind the bigger goal, we must compare ourselves only with ourselves. We can't focus or base our happiness on another's progress; we can focus only on our own.

Stephen R. Covey

#24. History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

Shigeru Yoshida

#25. It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#26. Examples, not educators, educate the best.

Garry Fitchett

#27. I'd have to say that the things that mean the most to me are the examples of original comic art that I'm able to look at every day, most of them either by notable friends and/or for projects that I've worked on.

Chip Kidd

#28. [To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

Helen Suzman

#29. The example of Jesus Christ is the only perfect example that ever existed in human nature. It is therefore, a rule by which to try all other examples; and the dispositions, frames and practices of others, must be commended and followed no further than they were followers of Christ.

Jonathan Edwards

#30. There's so many examples of just how lucky we are to be born anywhere in this world that is free.

Kid Rock

#31. I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. Children orientate towards examples. That's why I talk solely positive about my body in front of my daughter.

Kate Winslet

#32. God structures his authority based on how he operates internally - that is, how each member of the trinity sees and interacts with each other. God never asks us to function in our obedience outside his personal examples.

Reid A. Ashbaucher

#33. These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

Edward Sapir

#34. If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

Kgalema Motlanthe

#35. There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered.

Alex Ebert

#36. There are many examples of men in history who could give us a better mirror after which to pattern ourselves

Darius Bolton

#37. In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

Michel De Montaigne

#38. I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that's all one can do - and just be really loving around her. I've tried to give her confidence in who she is. I think she's all right in the confidence department.

Geri Halliwell

#39. Be less generous with your advice: live it instead. It is a bad situation when someone with a coughing fit attempts to sell a cough mixture. After all, action speaks far louder than words; living the example is the best advice you can ever give. Only examples have children.

Nana Awere Damoah

#40. Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples.
[Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]

Tacitus

#41. I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.

Judy LaMarsh

#42. I have been a strong proponent of helping people understand that during the last decade or so, as it lies at the very bottom of how we know anything. Let me give a couple examples to get that point across.

Edgar Mitchell

#43. The most important role models in people's lives, it seems, aren't superstars or household names. They're "everyday" people who quietly set examples for you-coaches, teachers, parents. People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps not even consciously, "I want to be like that."

Tim Foley

#44. Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

Steven Pinker

#45. Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.

Melissa Gilbert

#46. The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

James Joll

#47. A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.

Paul Halmos

#48. The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless.

Bob Beauprez

#49. If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

Spencer Silver

#50. It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

Henry Fielding

#51. If these examples are typical, then 75 to 95 percent of the productivity gains from many major new technologies were realized only after decades of improvements in the implementation.

James Bessen

#52. The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.

Rollo May

#53. You can have examples of reasons to hate people, but if you analyze those reasons it's like, Oh, I'm hating that person based on one thing they did, but I don't actually know them well enough to hate them.

Charlyne Yi

#54. This cognitive illusion was first noted in 1968 by the mathematician William Feller in his classic textbook on probability: "To the untrained eye, randomness appears as regularity or tendency to cluster."33 Here are a few examples of the cluster illusion. The

Steven Pinker

#55. There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

Elliott Abrams

#56. Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

Jim Carrey

#57. I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that there are many such examples.

David Greenberg

#58. I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#59. Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.

Theodore Dalrymple

#60. I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#61. His mind wandered, seeking other examples. People - particularly older ones - still spoke of putting film into a camera, or gas into a car. Even the phrase "cutting a tape" was still sometimes heard in recording studios - though that embraced two generations of obsolete technologies.

Arthur C. Clarke

#62. History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

Paul Valery

#63. Why I read that?? Watch that??
Listen to that?? Be a part of that??
YOu are like asking why do I even live... okay... okay!
It's not so far, but I do it to have what to share around the people to show people as examples and to feel glad about what I know and I will learn.

Deyth Banger

#64. Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without the aid of mathematics.

John William Strutt

#65. British physician Cyril Donnison in 1938 in Civilization and Disease, hypertension was already among the best-documented examples of a disease that seemed specific to Western societies and the more affluent social classes elsewhere.

Gary Taubes

#66. Let those who have never seen the inhumanity of man to man not think that soft words and examples in disarmament will do anything to prevent domination by the strong.

Arthur Charles

#67. There is no greater motor for architecture than religious fervor. Ancient examples include the Inca, Aztec Egyptian civilizations. In more recent times, Christianity gave rise to the Gothic and Romanesque architecture of the European middle ages and Islam produced the wonders of the Ottoman Empire.

Helen Grant Ross

#68. In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.

Ernst Mayr

#69. My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.

Jeff Bridges

#70. There are many examples to show that people will work more for a cause than for cash.

Dan Ariely

#71. The outstanding examples are still Cardozo's Nature of the Judicial Process18

Richard A. Posner

#72. In my opinion it is unwise to judge a young man by his school record. We have too many examples of bad students becoming distinguished men, and, on the other hand, of brilliant students not being at all remarkable in life.

Frank Wedekind

#73. People should just express themselves and not worry about trends - try to use fashion like a compass, an indicator, examples of things that you can be. It's not to be taken so seriously. It's just clothes.

Kelly Cutrone

#74. Education is a tender garden, whereas ignorance is weeds. History - the old history - was full of examples proving that, when civilizations fell, learning was the first thing to disappear.

Anonymous

#75. My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.

A. N. Wilson

#76. I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.

Edie Falco

#77. We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

Horace

#78. Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

Billy Graham

#79. Zionists exploited, exaggerated, invented, or even perpetrated "anti-Semitic" incidents both to procure support and to drive Jews to immigrate to the Zionist-designated homeland. A few examples are discussed below.

Alison Weir

#80. I can find lots of examples where a game won't make you rich, but I can't find a reasonable case where a Linux port doesn't have at least a small, positive return on investment.

Ryan C. Gordon

#81. I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.

Veronica Roth

#82. Below I describe two examples, one concerning self-awareness and the other culture, both concepts that, whenever mentioned in relation to animals, still send some scholars through the roof. Armchair

Frans De Waal

#83. A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

Thomas A Kempis

#84. Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit, or ingenuity could be imitated only by a few.

Horace Walpole

#85. For young women and men who had never seen blatant misogyny before, who had never heard a woman called a "cunt" or seen the size of a senator's thighs referred to on a T-shirt, these in-your-face examples of gender-based resistance to Hillary were eye-opening.

Rebecca Traister

#86. There are many examples of animals coming to surprising living arrangements ... where an animal takes a human being or another animal to be one of it's kind.

Yann Martel

#87. Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

Christy Turlington

#88. Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

David M. Raup

#89. Now we do have many examples of transitional sequences.

George Gaylord Simpson

#90. I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

Joey Tempest

#91. People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives.

Coretta Scott King

#92. There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.

Frans De Waal

#93. Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

Augustus Hare

#94. The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.

Mike Jay

#95. There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.

Dambisa Moyo

#96. The European empires did so many different things on such a large scale, that you can find plenty of examples to support whatever you want to say about them. You

Yuval Noah Harari

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Anonymous

#98. I think we place the wrong emphasis upon examples, that we're treading on very weak ground when we set ourselves up as examples for others to become religious. If people are going to look at me for religious guidance, then I think they're looking in the wrong place.

Charles M. Schulz

#99. Christ was on display early in my childhood. Both my mother and father were living examples of what it meant to live for Christ and have Him be the focal point of decisions, actions, thoughts and words. It was a blessing but not entirely unexpected when very young I also came to the faith.

Aaron Kampman

#100. Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Robert Cecil