Top 125 Derivative Quotes & Sayings

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

I don't sit around listening to beats all day. There's so many producers, and so much of it is derivative.

Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show a large profit from the same trade.

I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television. Optimus Prime maybe?

The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative.

My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.

When I evaluate a candidate, one of the most important criteria is what I call “the first derivative.” Is this person learning? Is this candidate moving forward, or have they stagnated.

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?

A derivative is a bet on whether a stock, or a bond or a real estate asset, is going to go up or down. There's a winner and a loser. It's like betting on a horserace.

There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.

Star Wars' was derivative of 'Buck Rogers' and 'Flash Gordon,' wasn't it?

The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett School. You know, if I see a derivative, I run the other way.

on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

Even 'Bonanza' was derivative of other westerns and, of course, other westerns were derivative of 'Bonanza.'

Don't worry about where you are. Watch the first derivative.

Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.

That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.

Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music.

I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.

That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.

In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.

Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?

I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's too intimidating and derivative to be just totally gobsmacked by someone doing exactly the same thing as you are.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

The Indian economy has declined because of the peculiar Indian 'invention' of that perfidious financial derivative called Participatory Notes, or PNs, otherwise known as the crony/crooked facilitator for black-money-based portfolio investment. No other country would think of such a derivative.

A credit derivative, at its core, is actually a very simple concept... The simplest way to think of a credit derivative is it is analogous to insurance against the risk of a credit default by your counterparty, your business counterpart.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

I get to listen and enjoy music that is partially mine. Maybe influenced and guided. I created some simple outlines, but ultimately, I'm hearing a derivative work.

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

You'll get more support on a hard, important, project than a derivative one.

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.

Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.

Young people like things that are fresh and new. If something does seem fatigued, or derivative, they're going to let you know.

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of communism led many to aim for a lifestyle derivative of Chicago or Detroit.

The credit derivative market would never have evolved but for the preexistence of the derivative markets because so much of the technology was borrowed.

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently as his muscles.

My design has always been a derivative of people I meet. I want to translate who they are and their personality into a room.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.