Top 325 Rigorous Quotes & Sayings

We will also have a more rigorous approach to professional development and managing unsatisfactory performance.

Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

I trained my butt off and competed and got to where I wanted to be from rigorous training and dieting.

The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

I would rather be right than rigorous.

It's every teacher's job to be rigorous about constantly being open to new ideas and innovation.

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

I have done four years of rigorous theatre before I finally started doing films.

I am very rigorous with myself.

Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.

The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.

true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

With such a rigorous schedule, it's important that I do everything I can to maintain my health and wellness.

I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.

Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

We all have to have more rigorous expectations of our kids in America.

Trying to do Christianity properly is tough. Life as a priest is rigorous and disciplined. It involves sacrifices.

I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up.

He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.

The process of inner self-examination brings about a knowledge that is as rigorous and supported by evidence as anything science has to offer. At the same time, this point of view redefines faith as a knowledge that is attained not only by intellectual means, but also through the rigorous development of the emotional side of the human psyche. Such emotional knowledge is unknown to the isolated intellect and has therefore been mistakenly labeled as "irrational."

There is no rigorous definition of rigor.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

Unlike many other startup processes, Customer Development is deep, detailed, and rigorous.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience

I didn't really get any rigorous background in film history.

Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack.

You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

Rigorous teaching schedules combined with mounds of paperwork can lead to burnout.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

All an investor can do is follow a consistently disciplined and rigorous approach; over time the returns will come

I've never understood why the knowledge training and rigorous testing of London cabbies isn't rolled out all over the U.K.

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

Disasters can also be averted, which is why the rigorous approach after Ronan Point was the correct response.

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.

Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion?

I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.

Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is wishful thinking, so the challenge to entrepreneurs is telling what's the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them as opposed to pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit, be very rigorous in your self analysis, certainly being extremely tenacious, and just work like hell. Put in 80-100 hours every week. All these things improves the odds of success

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.

There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.

Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.

In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.

Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only.

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.

Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless.

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.

I don't like doing really rigorous exercise. I don't mind a bit of yoga.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.