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Why are we a shadow and not a great tree? Why when we think we are spring, reality shows us we are a late autumn? Because of the fact that God is the Unique Accidental one, is the Primary Event, and everything that follows him is an Intended...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about temptation, god, events, autumn, spring, shadow, destiny, reality, truth, things

Gamers, especially the game masters, who are the primary...

Gamers, especially the game masters, who are the primary audience for any game box, want precision because that's what the players want.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about games

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

Quote by Scott Adams about heads, obstacles, principle, things, people

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye...

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

Quote by Orson Scott about theatre, actors

I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly...

Quote by Placido Domingo about charm, voice

The goal set by Hans Primas was the usage of random noise for the excitation of nuclear magnetic resonance, following the famous concepts of Norbert Wiener for the stochastic testing of non-linear systems.

Quote by Richard Ernst about purpose

But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about economy, future, reason, need

Italy is an enormous asset in my life now. I feel it's just a privilege for me to have actually met someone who is from a country that is so fantastic. And so a lot of it is the exploration of that country, trying to learn its language, eating its...

Quote by Colin Firth about country, food, language, life

I was the primary mover of my career. I told my people to...

I was the primary mover of my career. I told my people to give me a plan and I'd follow And it worked. I traveled and smiled, and it worked.

Quote by Whitney Houston about nation, career, people

The primary function of the design engineer is to make...

The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, impossible, things

People love to be scared I guess it's a primal deal.

People love to be scared I guess it's a primal deal.

Quote by Timothy Olyphant about people, love

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a...

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

Quote by Robert M. Parker, Jr. about food, writing, good, good luck

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must...

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

Quote by George S. Patton about succes

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a...

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

Quote by Robin Wright Penn about actors, work

Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve...

Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently.

Quote by James Cash Penney about intelligence, trains, man, work

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part...

Quote by John Perkins about history, cheating, man, world, life, people

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal...

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

Quote by Patrick Swayze about dance, things

In the 1960s, I continued the work on the secretory process using in parallel or in succession two different approaches. The first relied exclusively on cell fractionation, and was developed in collaboration with Philip Siekevitz, Lewis Greene,...

Quote by George Emil Palade about medicine, univers, research, animals, work, good, good luck

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