Secondarily Quotes

#1. In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. "We need to flip that model," Ressler told me. "No matter what kind of business you're in, it's time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking.

Daniel H. Pink

#2. The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.

Joan Didion

#3. Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is preaching that talks first about God and then only secondarily and derivatively talks about us. The God of Scripture is so much more interestingly than we are.

William Henry Willimon

#4. That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions.

Malcolm X

#5. If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#6. Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Albert Einstein

#7. Poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

May Sarton

#8. He'd never been to military pilot school, but he knew that years of training had compartmentalized Alex's brain into two halves: piloting problems and, secondarily, everything else.

James S.A. Corey

#9. My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

Eudora Welty

#10. Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

Kevin Spacey

#11. The child welfare system - devised and run by liberal social workers, psychologists, and judges ... Treats incompetent or abusive parents as its clients, and only secondarily considers the needs and well-being of the children involved.

Mona Charen

#12. A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

Elaine De Kooning

#13. If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in the mass, then our objectives should be to maintain such freedom as allows the individual to think and speak for himself.

Louis J. Halle

#14. Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#15. Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.

Kathleen Norris

#16. I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage.

Alanis Morissette

#17. Darwin speculated that "music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumph" and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music.

Oliver Sacks

#18. In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

E. Stanley Jones

#19. Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.

Duane Elmer

#20. Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.

Marc Chagall

#21. Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth.

Dan Simmons

#22. We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Allen Ginsberg

#23. Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. More than a simple desire to discover or know things, curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. Curiosity changes us. It is also a way to effect change, perhaps even on a global level.

Loren Rhoads

#24. After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

Yvonne De Carlo

#25. Do not afraid of your previous mistakes, try to fix them.

Kamaran Ihsan Salih

#26. Most people would feel guilty for destroying someone else's property. Yet they wreck the very temple their Creator gifted them.

Brendon Burchard