Top 408 Formation Quotes & Sayings

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

My degree in theology was an important part of my formation.

The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting from a random distribution of elementary particles and the field is as unlikely as the separation of the atmosphere into its components. The complexity of the living things has to be present within the material, from which they are derived, or in the laws, governing their formation.

The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally

The formation is not the most important thing.

Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.

It's difficult to play in a new formation and have everyone grasp it straight away.

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

Leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

If you look at figures, we have a good supply of doctors in Switzerland. They always say that in the future we shall have a lack of home doctors, family doctors. I'm not sure of that, but we have a problem of formation. Every year there [are] about 1,000 students beginning medical studies, and at the end of the formation there are only 600 young people getting the diploma. It means that about 40 percent of the students fail during the studies, although there is a selection at the beginning. Forty percent is too much as failure, so probably there is a problem in the formation, education.

It takes time to settle in and learn a new formation and style of play.

I think that Sarri's formation and playing with a midfield three have been fundamental for me.

I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love.

In college we didn't pass block the way they do in the pros - they played the I-formation at Wisconsin.

The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.

On a tactical level the defensive midfielder in a 4-3-3 formation is just about the most demanding position there is.

One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals - lastly, the tendency of hydrocarbons to unite together to form the more condensed material - suffice to account for the formation of these curious compounds. Moreover, this formation will be continuous because the reactions which started it are renewed incessantly.

It isn't important what formation is on the field, but rather our attitude.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that order. The pair-formation stage, usually referred to as courtship, is remarkably prolonged by animal standards.

Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization.

It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines.

Football is a really simple game, and the most important thing, in any formation, is that the players do their jobs, not the formation which they play in.

From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action

If the seminary is too large, it ought to be divided into smaller communities with formators who are equipped really to accompany those in their charge. Dialogue must be serious, without fear, sincere. It is important to recall that the language of young people in formation today is different from that in the past: we are living through an epochal change. Formation is a work of art, not a police action. We must form their hearts. Otherwise we are creating little monsters. And then these little monsters mold the People of God. This really gives me goose bumps.

Once a price move exceeds its median historical age, any method you use to analyze the market, whether it be fundamental or technical, is likely to be far more accurate. For example, if a chartist interprets a particular pattern as a top formation, but the market is only up 10% from the last low, the odds are high that the projection will be incorrect. However, if the market is up 25% to 30%, then the same type of formation should be given a great deal more weight.

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

Capital formation is the greatest charity of all.

Fixed formation is bad. Study this well.

When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?

I do not prefer a formation because it is only numbers.

The good thing is, we have household formation in this country.

The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.

Formation of alignments for governments are done by our central parliamentary board and not locally.

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

In any complex organism, brain formation and function must be controlled in part by genes.

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.

Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

I love Viennese waltzes and polkas, and especially ceilidhs and old-fashioned formation dancing.

Everyone receives spiritual formation, just as everyone gets an education. The only question is whether it is a good one or a bad one. We need to take a conscious, intentional hand in the developmental process. We need to understand what the formation of the human spirit is, and how it can best be done as Christ would have it done. This is an indispensable aspect of developing a psychology that is adequate to human life.

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.

Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.

I prefer the 4-2-3-1 formation and stick to it but have my own interpretations.

Catalysts are the conductors who choreograph the chemical dance that results in the formation of new structures.

Balance is the secret for every team. There cannot be a defensive formation and an attacking formation: such a concept is a limitation.

You cannot have a situation where you think that if you want to attack, then you play this formation, and if you want to defend, then you play this formation.

A logical extension of our work on glycogen was to investigate the formation of starch in plants.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

My butterflies are still going strong. I just hope they are flying in formation.