Quotes and Sayings About Typical
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
-- Alan Kay -
Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in front of me was a quite different person: an enraged lion, although with the fervour typical only of a southerner, with his temperamental patter, which made it hard to follow the torrent of his indignant exclamations and words.
-- Alexander Koblencs -
The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing of them devote as much time to this as to the study of openings.
-- Alexander Kotov -
A package of 35 improvements to typical industrial motor systems can save around 50% of their metered energy…with a simple payback under 16 months.
-- Amory Lovins -
A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.
-- Amy Goodman -
You know later in life I was inspired to sing and that would've been Aretha, Chaka Khan, Mariah - the typical divas were the inspiration. I've always enjoyed all those singers.
-- Anastacia -
Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.
-- Anat R. Admati -
Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century... the sense of 'elsewhen', of distance, lent to many of these movies by their settings. They exist, as it were, in a 19th century of the mind.
-- Andrew Tudor -
I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.
-- Anne Heche -
Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.
-- Anthony Daniels -
One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has shown to exist in quantities millions of times greater than is liberated by combustion.
-- Arthur Compton -
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
-- Arthur Erickson -
Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.
-- Auberon Waugh -
I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
-- Balthazar Getty -
If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.
-- Ben Bernanke -
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
-- Ben Whishaw -
The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I would wager that the number of civilians that were killed [in] a typical week under Saddam Hussein was probably more than we killed during the weeks we were at war there.
-- Bill Maher -
It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.
-- Bill Vaughan -
A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
-- Billy Joel -
What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
-- Bob Goff -
In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.
-- Brad Paisley -
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
-- Buchi Emecheta -
The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!
-- C. S. Lewis -
The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share the complete lack of empirical content which is associated with that certainty: The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.
-- Carl Gustav Hempel
