Top 1200 Studying Philosophy Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it was something I was pursuing when I got out of school.

Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college and be taught heart.

One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

My mom suggested studying acting in college, but I was a bit scared to choose that path because I couldn't wrap my head around the drama school audition process.

The Bible and studying the Bible has been an important part of my life.

How can you learn more? By admiring what you've done right? Or by studying what you've done wrong?

If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to consider religion rather as a variation of poetry which by misjudging its proper beautiful game takes itself too seriously and one-sidedly. Philosophy, however, admits and recognizes that it can begin and complete itself only with religion. Poetry seeks only to strive for the infinite and despises worldly utility and culture, which are the true antitheses of religion. Eternal peace among artists is thus not far away.

I actually got really interested in traveling to India after studying yoga. I have this wanderlust and don't like doing things without knowing about the history.

While studying the effects of accumulated stress on the nervous system, I began to suspect that most organisms have an innate capacity to rebound from threatening and stressful events.

Facebook is studying emotional reaction to things and bringing you fewer of things you don't engage with and more of what you do.

I was studying pre-med at UCLA when I decided show business was for me, and the best way to make it was in music. I had just one problem. I was tone deaf.

There's no reason to continue including language in the federal spending bill to prohibit the CDC and NIH from studying the causes or effects of gun violence on public health.

Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.

But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights studying. The fact that so many figured I couldn't do it.

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

A man cannot understand the art he is studying if he only looks for the end result without taking the time to delve deeply into the reasoning of the study.

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

I finished high school and college - I actually moved to New York to study film - and was always working in theaters and studying. You never stop learning.

I'm studying at A&M, and that takes so much hard work, so much dedication, and that effort is very tough.

You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.

If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society.

Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

My research consists of studying the effects of putting somebody like me into a world like this.

I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.

If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

I was making music simultaneously while studying B. Sc. and M. Sc.

Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things - only we do it from an individuality perspective.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

I was at Boulogne, in the second team - the sixth, then the fifth division. I wasn't professional, so I kept studying because I wasn't sure if I would be able to make a living as a footballer.

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

I started studying filmmakers, and I would say early on the ones that really inspired me the most were like the field magicians of music videos.

When I first came USA, I didn't feel this was my home. This was where I was studying, and then my home was now rejecting me.

The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.

At 19, while studying at St Xavier's College and majoring in literature and sociology, I got my first job as a copywriter. It was at a company called the Script Shop.

Chi is developed through meditation, through studying with one who has a great deal of it.

So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while I was studying it was where I came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses.

Many people entertain the idea that Christianity,like almost any other religion,is basically a system of beliefs-you know, a set of doctrines or a code of behavior, a philosophy, an ideology. But that's a myth. Christianity is not at all like Buddhism or Islam or Confucianism. The founders of those religions said (in effect), 'Here is what I teach. Believe my teachings. Follow my philosophy.' Jesus said, 'Follow me'(Matthew 9:9). Leaders of the world's religions said, 'What do you think about what I teach?' Jesus said, 'Who do you say I am?'(Luke 9:20)

Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.

I was studying in a school in Chandigarh when Yash Chopra discovered me and cast me for 'Trishul.'

I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.

I don't have any magic way for studying. Mostly just talking hands/strategy with people whose opinion I respect. Nothing out of the ordinary.

No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

After studying theatre from National School of Drama, theatre became a passion, an ambition.

My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.