Lindley Quotes & Sayings

In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error. — Lindley Murray

Each force in flight is balanced by an opposing force. The opposite of lift is weight. Weight is always trying to pull an object back to earth, so to get something to stay up, lift has to be greater than weight. You'd think your weight would always be the same, but it isn't. When you do aerobatics or go into a dive - like a kite that's plunging into the sand at the beach - there's an increase in gravity, and that makes you weigh more. If you want your heavy kite to stay in the air, you have to increase the lift, as well. Maybe by waiting for a stronger wind. Maybe by finding a windier place to fly your kite. Maddie brought lift back into my life by forcing me outside. So did Bob, who introduced me to the editors of this magazine. So did Fernande, the chambermaid at the Paris Ritz, who gave me her daughter's clothes and made me get dressed and brought me coffee every morning for three weeks. — Elizabeth Wein

If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Damnation, Kam." Kiaran jerks me back up when I start to fall forward. I'm not sure I can walk. "You're bleeding all over the place."

My voice comes out in a croak. "I'm not happy about it either. — Elizabeth May

Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind. — Dennis Lindley

As Dennis Lindley had argued, if someone attaches a prior probability of zero the hypothesis that the moon is made of green cheese, "then the whole armies of astronauts coming back bearing green cheese cannot convince him. — Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

Generally there is Stigler's law of Eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler. — Dennis Lindley

The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only. — Ryan Lindley

The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the world, and the subject is inseparable from the world, but from a world which the subject itself projects. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If a piece of work is heavy and complicated then it is wrong." ... Some writers feel that to express their ideas in simple terms is degrading. Some use complexity to disguise the paucity of their material. In fact, simplicity is a virtue and when, as here, it is both original and useful, it can represent a real advance in knowledge. — Dennis Lindley

I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man! — Ken Hensley

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism. — Chaim Potok

Service is the rent that we pay for our room on earth. — Charles Lindley Wood Halifax

Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require. — Lindley Murray

My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera. — Yousuf Karsh

It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility. — Dennis Lindley

If you endured the suffering, shall find the joy of overcoming any difficulty. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As a minimum, the following areas should be considered: The stakeholders. The budget. The future direction and current culture of the organisation. The baseline Architecture Landscape. The current processes used for change and operation of IT. The skills and capabilities of the people within the enterprise. — Kevin Lindley

The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty. — Dennis Lindley

Thus I came ... to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true ... Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience ... an attitude which has never left me. — Albert Einstein

Live to paint, don't paint to live. — Walter Darby Bannard

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided. — Harri Holkeri

Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it. — Dennis Lindley

In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged. — Dennis Lindley

There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do. — Ryan Lindley

Function expressions and variables declared inside a function without using var become global properties. — Cody Lindley

It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty. — Dennis Lindley

I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things. — Ryan Lindley

The only thing that I always do - is once I've taken on a job, even just to do one scene in a movie, I ask myself, "What's happened the moment the kid was born, until page one of the script?" To answer that simple question, I have an infinite amount of work to do. And I enjoy that part as much as I enjoy any part of making movies. — Viggo Mortensen

others will fall longer and harder." Gina Lindley — Gina Rodriguez

In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation - and reason is the best confirmation. — Dennis Lindley

The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need. — Dennis Lindley

Fear is a hurdle that stops the expression — Andy Lindley

Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it. — Dennis Lindley

Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4. — Dennis Lindley