(172 quotes found)
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.”
Harold S. Geneen
“Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life”
David Gayson
“Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.”
George V. Higgins
“It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.”
Blaise Pascal
“The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.”
Karl Pearson
“God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal Prayers.”
William Penn
“I don't intend to speculate on the N-type until I have formal, official confirmation of this.”
Debby Reynolds
“I intend to run. But this is not a formal announcement. If the fundraising continues like it is, it's a no-brainer decision.”
Baron Hill
“Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.”
David Hilbert